Hi! On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 05:51:45PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > inkscape comes with 19mbytes of utterly irrelevant multi-language > tutorials, shoved into one directory, non-optionally. > > it is essential that these be added as a separate _optional_ package, > inkscape-docs or inkscape-tutorials. > > i have very limited space on an 8gb CF card i am using as a _main_ > hard drive (it's very, very fast - 0.5ms seek time) > > i therefore represent something approximating an "embedded" system > rather than a "desktop", although i am running a 2ghz CPU with 1Gb RAM. > > i cannot therefore afford to have unecessary disk space "wasted"... > > ... but it is impossible to install this package - at all - without > going through some extremely risky procedures... > > ... or, getting the source (on another machine), editing debian/control > etc. etc. and basically doing what should have been done in the first > place: removing the tutorials fom the inkscape program.
This is one of the things on my TODO list about inkscape. Probably not with the upcoming upload to unstable (that should happen during next weekend) but soon enough I'm about splitting the monolithic inkscape package in two or more related packages and tutorials is one of them. Others could be documentation and data placed under /usr/share directory, streamlining the installation process and its dependencies. Cheers. -- Matteo F. Vescovi Debian Maintainer GnuPG KeyID: 0x83B2CF7A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
