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[Vasile Gaburici]

TeXLive 2007 documenation is in the same ballpark as KDE's. For
TL2008, there's even more of it, but split in ~1500 sub-packages...

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu> wrote:
>>>>>> "KK" == Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> writes:
>
> KK> If it's so easy, then why has it been vetoed for some of our KDE
> KK> packages (like kdepimlibs for kdepimlibs-apidocs, kdeartwork for
> KK> the icon themes and other noarch data, ...)?
>
> What I find odd is that kdelibs does have a noarch subpackage.  Now,
> kdelibs-apidocs is enormous (240MB compressed RPM) so I can understand
> the exception, but if there are rules about how much space needs to be
> saved or how large the noarch subpackage has to be then it would be
> nice to have them written down somewhere.
>
> It's not as if the extra-arches hack is difficult to set up, so I'd
> imagine that the threshold would be pretty low, but it's quite
> possible that there's some overhead or disadvantage I'm not aware of.
>
>  - J<
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