Quoting Jaromír Mikeš (2015-09-15 00:20:54) > 2015-09-14 23:58 GMT+02:00 Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk>: >> Quoting Jaromír Mikeš (2015-09-14 23:09:20) >>> I jumped in to updating hydrogen-drumkits package ... I updated it >>> and realize that it is really huge! :( ... About 250MB >>> I think something so big doesn't make sense distribute in debian. >>> >>> What we should do with it? >>> >>> 1) Ask the upstream to make just "basic" collection of drumkits ( >>> e.g. about 20MB ) package it and let users download whatever they >>> want from internet? >>> >>> 2) Create package which wouldn't contain drumkits itselfs but only >>> script for downloading and installing drumkits? >>> >>> 3) Other solution? >> >> Would be nice to ask upstream if possible to _also_ provide a smaller >> subset, but 250MB is not strictly too big - see e.g. >> alien-arena-data. > > Yes but latest debian release from 2007 30MB now in 2015 250MB I am > assuming that size still can rise in future. > Also I believe that usually user using just couple of favorite > drumkits and not need all of of them maybe. > So I am thinking to safe user disk space too.
Seems we agree. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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