On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Anthony Fok wrote:
[snip]
> > PS. Currently wml includes eperl, iselect,
> > weblint, m4, txt2html etc. I intend to split
> > these (atleast the bigger ones) to separate
> > packages, and make wml depend on them. See
> > /usr/doc/wml/COPYRIGHT.OTHER. No reason to
> > have eperl or m4 installed twice.. But that
> > cames *after* getting a working version out.
>
> I am ambivalent on this one. Currently, the installed size of WML is only
> 1990 KB, i.e. less than 2 MB. Basically, the ePerl, m4, etc. included in
> WML are somewhat stripped down already (i.e. no example files, just the
> executables and the manpages). It might not worth the trouble to split up
> the package.
I disagree. What's the advantage of shipping all these utilities in the
wml package? None. The upstream author included these for WML ports to
other (non-GNU) systems which are likely to have no m4 (or atleast a
different one).
There is already an eperl, m4, etc. package and we should use these. If
special versions are required, you could use versioned dependencies.
Thanks,
Chris
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