I like the idea of having all the material available in a form that is as convenient as possible (ie alread .deb) . But this is similar to the problem of packaging large scientific packages which are interesting to only a limited number of people. (similar, but different reasons for keeping it out of the archive). This discussion has come up several times in the nine months that I've been reading this list. It looks like the time is arriving for (someone with tons of time) splitting the archive in some way.
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