Hi there, On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malate...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Frans Pop <elen...@planet.nl> wrote: >> On Friday 20 November 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> If you ever want this to be available on Debian CDs, you're going to >>> have to do something about the size. For now, I'm going to blacklist >>> this package altogether. >> >> Even though they do technically still fit on a CD, you may want to consider >> excluding the following packages as well, as including them essentially >> means having roughly 4 CD images dedicated to 9 packages. >> >> 534777750 vtk-doc_5.2.1-11_all.deb > > Slightly off topic, but I have been login some recommendations to > divide the size of this package by at least a factor of 2. > > Reference (will be updated whenever tracking system process my mail) : > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=vtk-doc
Just for reference. Some package (such as vtk-doc) became very large due to a minor change in doxygen/dot. Now PNG files are generated using cairo which by default is doing antialiasing. Using : dot -Tpng:gd output.png input.dot force the use of libgd to create the png file. The file size was reduced by a factor of 10 on the small experiments I played with. There is currently no easy way to update doxygen script to use this trick (*). DD & DM have to resort hacking the DOT_PATH and have a fake DOT script calling dot with the proper parameter. I hope this help some debian maintainers, -- Mathieu (*) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
