[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs dialog

[Peter Bonivart]

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote:
> If this were a different type of package, I would be more inclined to
> say "okay, sure". The trouble here, is that "dialog" is the type of
> package that specifically appeals to people who are low-impact, as it
> were. If you are using 'dialog', you are using very lightweight
> text-only packages, instead of the usual GUI hugeness, which may take
> hundreds of megabytes.
> It is concievable that they even may want this ONE package, just for itself.
> Please note that the dialog package itself, is a mere 170k.
> As such, even the ncurses package alone, weighing in at 1300k, is considerable.
> Piling on another 1500k for the ncurses-pulled terminfo package, puts
> things way over the top.

It's not that I don't welcome your suggestions and personal views but
this is what I want to release.

/peter