On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: > You ask a good question Jules. Let me try to explain my reasoning. > > The finished E deb is 51k. The finished -theme deb is 910k. Now, if > there is a bug in the binary and I have to recompile -- all you have to > download is the 51k package, not the huge theme. I thought this would > also lessen the burden on other arch maintainers because there are only > to binary packages, E and dox.
:-) Two good reasons. I retract my point. The 2nd is especially important - it saves a *lot* of space on the mirrors... (910k * (num_archs -1)) potentially... > > As to the theme, I have no intents of making packages out of every joe > blow's theme. No point in filling up Debian w/ them, just put them in > your home dir where they belong. Unless one becomes particularly popular, or we design a special debian one for use as a new-user default. Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
