Mike Meyer wrote: > I, on the other hand, consider something as trivial as a few hundred > megabytes of disk space (let's see - today's newegg special was a > 500GB disk for $50, so that's .01 cents/MB, so that's a few pennies > worth of storage; it might almost be noticeable if I installed it on > my cell phone) to be absolutely worth it if it saves me a single build > cycle over the course of a project. If it really bothers you, have > your installation package create file systems for the include > directories if they don't exist, and turn on compression on those file > systems.
The issue just disk space; it's also bandwidth. Many people have a metered connection, so downloading bits they won't use is going to more than just annoy them, it may even cost them money. I agree that developers should have an equally good experience, but that's why I suggested possibly only installing headers if there is software that needs them. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
