[Pkg-mono-devel] Re: Mono Debian Packaging

[Ganesan R]

>>>>> "Paolo" == Paolo Molaro <lupus@debian.org> writes:

> On 01/20/04 Ganesan Rajagopal wrote:
>> Are you talking about all the dlls being located in /usr/lib? Looks like
>> just configuring with --libdir=/usr/lib/assemblies or a similar directory
>> will do the trick. I'll experiment with this.

> No, that won't work: you'll get broken packages.

Okay, I am sure you know better :-).

>> I saw that. I agree with your decisions; I see no need for a separate
>> libmint package but would like to see mint in Debian.

> mint on x86 in debian is just a waste of server space, IMHO.

$ apt-cache show mono-mint | grep -i size
Size: 7544
installed-size: 60

So size is not a big concern. I think mint is still interesting enough to be
in Debian, but then what do I know?

> The name also apparently clashes with some matlab utility of sorts
> so you may get complains for debian boxes installed at universities etc.

May not be really a problem as long as it doesn't get pulled in by any mono
package or meta package.

Ganesan

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Ganesan R