Le samedi 19 mars 2011 à 11:42:46 (+0100 CET), Adam Borowski a écrit : > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 08:30:08AM +0100, Julien Valroff wrote: > > I also wonder whether it wouldn't be better to split the various themes in 3 > > different packages given the size of the unique package (13M). > > For most other packages, it would be a good idea. > For eye-candy for Gnome, we're talking about a 13M addition to > multi-gigabyte system (minimal Gnome can be less, but if you have to > trim, you'd install a lighter environment).
I use GNOME but still try and not waste my disk space for things I do not use. The average icon theme for GNOME has an uncompressed size of +/- 10M while these faenza themes are more than 60M. % aptitude show "~n gnome-icon-theme" | grep -e "^Package" -e "^Uncompressed Size" Package: gnome-icon-theme-suede Uncompressed Size: 2089 k Package: gnome-icon-theme-blankon Uncompressed Size: 3498 k Package: gnome-icon-theme-extras Uncompressed Size: 1053 k Package: gnome-icon-theme-gartoon Uncompressed Size: 9298 k Package: gnome-icon-theme-symbolic Uncompressed Size: 561 k Package: gnome-icon-theme-nuovo Uncompressed Size: 10.4 M Package: gnome-icon-theme-yasis Uncompressed Size: 10.9 M Package: gnome-icon-theme-dlg-neu Uncompressed Size: 16.7 M Package: gnome-icon-theme Uncompressed Size: 14.2 M Package: gnome-icon-theme-faenza Uncompressed Size: 63.6 M > Thus, I'd say splitting would just cause confusion for users who would have > to make a decision what to happen at apt level. A choice at the preferences > dialog level gets a hint (the directory icon) and is instantly visible, at > apt you have just a name. A meta package could help these users, eg. gnome-icon-themes-faenza while each theme has its own package (gnome-icon-theme-faenza, gnome-icon-theme-faenza-dark etc.) Of course, each package (short & long) description should make it clear to users what is contained in each package. That is however just a proposal, I do understand your point of view as well. Cheers, Julien -- .''`. Julien Valroff ~ <jul...@kirya.net> ~ <jul...@debian.org> : :' : Debian Developer & Free software contributor `. `'` http://www.kirya.net/ `- 4096R/ E1D8 5796 8214 4687 E416 948C 859F EF67 258E 26B1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110319114127.ga21...@kirya.net
