On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Osamu Aoki <os...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi > > On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 01:14:28PM +0100, Joshuah Hurst wrote: > ... >> - Despite being much more powerful, the binary package should be half >> the size of the current 'unstable' Debian package size > > Yes. But this phenomenon is true for almost all binary packages.
In this case its the result of better engineering. Olga Kryzhanovska cloned the Opensolaris ksh93 package design which resulted in lots of fixes in ksh93, made previously lost (well, lost on Linux, other platforms didn't never had that problem) POSIX builtins available and yet managed top cut down the size of the unpacked package contents by half. Josh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caeemktoxqfttxjjazgu4jw7sfe0i9q7gqwzqcmg6rd6_2k2...@mail.gmail.com
