On Mon, 23 May 2011, Nicola Pero wrote: > Yes ... on the other hand, this does not address the other issue, which > is the amount of disk space that you need to actually uncompress the > tarballs :-( > > Unpacking gcc-4.6.0.tar.xx requires about 600 MB. Unpacking > gcc-core-4.6.0.tar.xx > requires about 150 MB. It's a big difference.
Hmm, I just see that Joseph now activated this change which I find unfortunate, since... > Maybe you could reduce the number of tarballs, but without going to the > extreme of having just one. Eg, you could keep the testsuite (expands > to approx 150MB) as a separate tarball, and probably Java (due to its > size, again expands to approx 150MB) as a separate tarball too, while > merging everything else into a single tarball (expanding to approx 300 > MB). It may a reasonable compromise. ...at least having the testsuite and Java separate makes a lot of sense. The vast majority of users does not need the former and the latter is on the verge of becoming practically irrelevant. As one datapoint, the entire FreeBSD Ports Collection has a single(!) port relying on GCJ. Also, changing this for older release branches as happened now does cause all sorts of fun (for dubious definitions of this word) for distribution packagers. :-( Joseph, may I ask to reconsider and at least keep the testsuite and Java separate? Gerald
