On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 03:11:02PM +0100, Thomas R?sner wrote: > Yes and no. The same applies to Postgres, and still they provide the > libs in an extra package. It just makes sense, how much of that 20M > mysql tarball is used by the client? It's like you'd have to dl apache > (four times) to get wget. Of the mysql tarball (23Mb to start), a full 40% belongs to the testcases and the documentation that they ship. Another 8% for the modified copy of BerkDB that they ship, and only then do we start getting really useful things. 12% for the things unique to the server, and thereafter everything else is common or client-only.
So yes, there is cruft in the tarball, but it's not where you think it is. I'd be quite happy if they split the tests, docs and now-redundant berkdb (upstream is not supporting it in newer versions AFAIK) into another tarball - it would be almost half the size, but have near-identical build time. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux Developer E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85
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