On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 05:06:20PM -0400, Matthew Danish wrote: > On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 08:10:21PM +0000, James Troup wrote: > > > > Could you please explain the rationale for a separate -doc package > > and/or consider merging it into the main or -dev package? > > > > The usual rational for -doc packages is when the documentation is > > very large and that doesn't really seem to be the case here (the > > .deb is 15K) and there's a cost to all users (not just users of your > > package) by adding extra packages (increased Packages file size -> > > increased memory usage for apt, etc.).
My reason was that any library's docs have HTML links to the base library docs, so pull in 8M of ghc6-doc (plus the library docs themselves add up when you have a number of them installed). If you don't think this is sufficient reason then please let me know and I will merge all my -doc packages into their -dev counterparts (at which point ghc6-doc might as well be merged into ghc6 too). In the future it would be nice to have a single doc package and the library compiled for multiple Haskell implementations, but we aren't there yet. Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ debian-haskell mailing list [email protected] http://urchin.earth.li/mailman/listinfo/debian-haskell
