On Tue, 04 Jan 2005, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:26:36AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Background: most of them (compressed) need about 5kB size. This is > > rudicuolous... a package of ~5kB that about ~5kB meta data to be > > included in the archive. > > I can see that this is suboptimal. Given that this is how the > modules are distributed upstream ie. individually, how should I > avoid this? Would it be acceptable to package them all as one > debian package somehow, and thus lose the transparency that > orig.tar.gz brings?
That's usually the best idea if the package is small enough or reasonably useless without the other parts of the package. See, for example, libimage-base-bundle-perl, or any of the other packages which have been bundled together in units of usefulness to avoid the problems if having 8 billion teeny perl modules. [You probably should also let upstream know that they should consider bundling these together on CPAN, or even distributing them as a single module.] Don Armstrong -- If you wish to strive for peace of soul, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire. -- Friedrich Nietzsche http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
