severity 703099 wishlist thanks On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 04:49:36PM +0100, Andrew Shadura wrote: > Hello, > > On 25 March 2013 11:08, Ricardo Mones <mo...@debian.org> wrote: > > Well, the package eases that download and the management of the > > files in the system. You're free not to use it and download it by > > hand it you think that's easier for you, of course. > > > I'm starting to think the "ready to use solutions" phrase in > > package description made you think the scripts would be available > > under /usr/bin or directly runnable. For me that the solution is > > ready doesn't necesarily mean I can run the script directly. > > Anyway I'll add a brief explanation to try to minimize confussion. > > Well, not necessarily /usr/bin. But why can't you just -X them to not > have them compressed? I've asked few people around, some of them are > DDs, and they have agreed it's pointless to ship compressed scripts.
As a general idea, yes, I agree, but this tools package is just an assorted collection from which you may use just a few. Most of the time it's just one script what you need. > Why not just make users' life easier a little bit? From a complete user point of view (which I am too): I don't want uncompressed scripts wasting space when the chance I use all of them is so low. Anyway, since there's also this [0], and the whole set is not really a big chunk of disk, you've convinced me :) regards, [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=593382 -- Ricardo Mones ~ 00:45 < hammar> cool.. have you used rssyl? 00:46 <@Ticho> um, yes Seen on #sylpheed
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