Портон Виктор Львович <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not always. For example, apache2 package is split into two packages: > apache2 and apache2-doc (and also apache2-dev and several others). To > Build apache2 binary package most of documentation files are not > needed. In the case of apache2 downloading only needed files (e.g. using > compilation directly from network filesystem) would be big traffic save.
I still don't understand what problem you're trying to solve by reducing downloads for source packages, even if successful. Very, very few people download source packages. Debian is a binary distribution. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
