On 2012-Jun-26 20:50:48 +0200, Marcus von Appen <m...@freebsd.org> wrote: >Archlinux does provide complete packages, which makes perfect sense for >me. I still do not see any reason or argument on why we would need >sub-packages.
The most obvious reasons are the compiler ports. If I compile something (eg mplayer - which really wants gcc46) with gcc46 then the resultant executable has dependencies on support libraries supplied by gcc46 (eg lib/gcc46/libgcc_s.so.1). Currently, if I make a package of mplayer and try to install it on another system, then in order to satisfy the (~420KB) dependency on lib/gcc46/libgcc_s.so.1, it pulls is gcc46, which pulls in devel/binutils, math/gmp, math/mpfr and math/mpc - about 120MB. And if I'd selected gcj when I built gcc46 then the total would be about 300MB. This _is_ an issue when I'm installing into the fairly small SSD on my netbook. -- Peter Jeremy
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