kapo...@melix.org wrote: >Le samedi 12 juillet 2014 à 12:03 +0100, Steve McIntyre a écrit : >> >> Right. Did you discuss that with ftpmaster or anybody else outside of >> the javascript team? There's typically been a consensus against very >> small packages containing just a single script or piece of code so >> small that the packaging metadata is going to be as big as (or bigger >> than!) the package contents. The packaging overhead hits every single >> user of Debian... > >Can you give reference(s) to that consensus ?
Not off the top of my head, but it's come up a number of times in the last few years if you want to dig in the archives. >Can you be more specific about the way small packages "hit" users ? >(numbers, please). Every single user ends up downloading, storing and processing a larger amount of metadata in the Packages files. That's an issue. Storage might be cheap for most people, but not for everybody. Extra bandwidth to transfer the extra: ditto. And the extra processing needed on every invocation of apt and dpkg and the other tools slows everything down. All of these arguments have been made before - see previous threads. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Support the Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression: http://www.eff.org/cafe/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/e1x65yb-0004dg...@mail.einval.com
