On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Neil Williams <codeh...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 11:48:28 +0200 > Steffen Möller <steffen_moel...@gmx.de> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> with more people using Debian on phones and SSDs, the size >> of packages keeps being an issue. > > It's more than the packages themselves. It also includes the Packages > file and there's a clear need to encourage maintainers to use more > package splits. > > Emdebian has smaller packages and keeps the Packages file smaller by > only providing a subset of all packages in Debian. > > There is a possible issue where Debian might consider splitting main > by functionality as well as by freedom but Emdebian has tried that with > our Component support and it proved too difficult to manage in the long > term. > > Other issues include: > > 0: single binaries which need upstream support to split up
0.1 single binary need to dlopen their dependencies (for instance imagemagick/X) Bastien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAE2SPAYxq1HiO=GJ6VwLLfOtw7DJwX1BhgPdE2ZCx6t=Rk7=q...@mail.gmail.com
