Re: Improving your archive and package system for small package

2015-09-05 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2015-09-03 at 13:26:12 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Seems Osamu Aoki is working on at least part of the puzzle: > > https://bugs.debian.org/797045 > > Merging multiple sources *really* shouldn't be necessary. And the > metadata for those sources will vary

Re: Improving your archive and package system for small package

2015-09-05 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2015-09-03 at 17:28:38 +0200, Adrien CLERC wrote: > This may have been discussed before, but could we achieve something like > this with virtual package? With the implemented version Provides, which means having versioned virtual packages, this is actually probably a good solution, ei

Re: Improving your archive and package system for small package

2015-09-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Josh Triplett (2015-09-03 22:26:12) > Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Seems Osamu Aoki is working on at least part of the puzzle: >> https://bugs.debian.org/797045 > > Merging multiple sources *really* shouldn't be necessary. And the > metadata for those sources will vary, so that likely won't

Re: Improving your archive and package system for small package

2015-09-03 Thread Josh Triplett
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Seems Osamu Aoki is working on at least part of the puzzle: > https://bugs.debian.org/797045 Merging multiple sources *really* shouldn't be necessary. And the metadata for those sources will vary, so that likely won't save that much space. Perhaps we should add a few mo

Re: Improving your archive and package system for small package

2015-09-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Bastien ROUCARIES (2015-09-03 13:36:15) > In order to improve node situation we need to improve the small > packages problems. > > What are the main bottlenet ? What could be done to improve the > situation ? > > The node small package does not change often so it could be a win to > yo

Re: Improving your archive and package system for small package

2015-09-03 Thread Adrien CLERC
Le 03/09/2015 13:36, Bastien ROUCARIES a écrit : > Hi, > > In order to improve node situation we need to improve the small > packages problems. > > What are the main bottlenet ? What could be done to improve the situation ? > > The node small package does not change often so it could be a win to >

Re: Improving your archive and package system for small package

2015-09-03 Thread Jose-Luis Rivas
On 03/09/15, 03:13pm, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > I was thinking generally, perl latex python have a lot of small > package. Each language could not come with its own solution. Maybe > creating a tool agregating small debian package in a big one. But > doing something only for javascript is not a

Re: Improving your archive and package system for small package

2015-09-03 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Jérémy Lal wrote: > > > 2015-09-03 13:36 GMT+02:00 Bastien ROUCARIES : >> >> Hi, >> >> In order to improve node situation we need to improve the small >> packages problems. >> >> What are the main bottlenet ? What could be done to improve the situation >> ? >> >> Th

Re: Improving your archive and package system for small package

2015-09-03 Thread Jérémy Lal
2015-09-03 13:36 GMT+02:00 Bastien ROUCARIES : > Hi, > > In order to improve node situation we need to improve the small > packages problems. > > What are the main bottlenet ? What could be done to improve the situation ? > > The node small package does not change often so it could be a win to > y

Improving your archive and package system for small package

2015-09-03 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
Hi, In order to improve node situation we need to improve the small packages problems. What are the main bottlenet ? What could be done to improve the situation ? The node small package does not change often so it could be a win to your archive size. Moreover if we could solve this problem we co