Mike A. Harris wrote:
...
What's funny though, is that for XFree86 packaging at least,
every single sub package consumes at least a minimum of 150-200Kb
each on your hard disk, even if the package were to contain zero
files. This is because the rpm spec file changelog is stored in
the rpm database once per installed package (instead of merging
and refcounting, unless this has changed and I'm wrong now), so
any subpackage that isn't at least 400-500Kb or more in size
argueably is *wasting* space and should be merged into a
different subpackage. ;o)
Someone out there is now no doubt multiplying the size of the
changelog by the number of subpackages and calculating the total
wasted disk space in the rpm database when XFree86 is installed.
If not, it'll likely be something to the effect of:
$ rpm -q --changelog $(rpm -qa |grep ^XFree86) |wc -c
4433085
Or roughly 4.5Mb of your RPM database files is XFree86
changelogs. Wowsers. ;o)
Not a complaint, but why did they/you move changelogs from the doc
directory into the RPM database? It doesn't seem like a very necessary
thing...
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Paul
http://paulgear.webhop.net
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