On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:43:57PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 1) The way the Debian archive works requires the data to be stored > > twice (source package and .deb). > > Why not allow Source only packages ?
Because installing such package requires you to have three times the necessary space and there no way to make it installable from dselect or apt-get install. For sure, if we can make those options works correctly, I'm not opppsed to it. See also my suggestion about a deb package who used .orig.tar.gz as an "external" data.tar.gz. > > May the Source be with you. > Goswin > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fabien Ninoles Chevalier servant de la Dame Catherine des Rosiers aka Corbeau aka le Veneur Gris Debian GNU/Linux maintainer E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WebPage: http://www.tzone.org/~fabien RSA PGP KEY [E3723845]: 1C C1 4F A6 EE E5 4D 99 4F 80 2D 2D 1F 85 C1 70 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
