Re: Dictionary Packages

1998-04-13 Thread Marco Budde
Am 12.04.98 schrieb hilliard # flinet.com ... Moin Bob! BH> provides the source for the client/server software. These BH> dictionaries total about 32 mb in compressed form. Two of them, which BH> amount to about 24 mb, are essential for a satisfactory server, but it BH> would be highly desirabl

Re: Dictionary Packages

1998-04-12 Thread Bob Hilliard
David Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Personally I'd prefer to have additional packages > dictd-web1913, dictd-foldoc, dictd-... (depending on dictd), That's exactly what I had in mind. Sorry if my message left the wrong impression. I envisage four source packages and seven or eight bin

Re: Dictionary Packages

1998-04-12 Thread David Frey
On Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 10:23:45PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: > I would like to package these eight dictionaries to accompany > dictd, but if there is a policy against such large text packages, I > could make installer packages to format and install the tarballs that > are available for anonym

Re: Dictionary Packages

1998-04-12 Thread G John Lapeyre
I like the idea of having all the material available in a form that is as convenient as possible (ie alread .deb) . But this is similar to the problem of packaging large scientific packages which are interesting to only a limited number of people. (similar, but different reasons fo