[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs gdb

Peter FELECAN pfelecan at opencsw.org
Tue Jan 25 17:56:39 CET 2011


Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> writes:

> On 1/25/11, Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>
>> Well, I beg to differ: if a package bring info files it must depend on
>> the package which gives the mean to read them. Otherwise, why not
>> isolate systematically the info files in a specific package, e.g., -doc?
>
> Your idea of splitting out the .info files is a good one, though.
> Usually I only suggest this, if the documentation is of a certain
> size. No-one has bothered to examine gdb for this issue before.
> [looking...]
> As the info files take up almost 2 megabytes in space, I think that
> would be a great idea for the next release.

If I didn't splitted is because the info files take less than 10% of the
package. Sure, now that there are 4 of them there is 4 instances in the
repository.

In the hypothesis that the info files are splitted, is the info specific
package depending on texinfo or not?
-- 
Peter


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