libgweather 50Mb??
Jim Gettys
jg at laptop.org
Fri Aug 15 20:41:59 UTC 2008
Upstream bug filed as:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547961
- Jim
On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 07:36 -0700, John Reiser wrote:
> > Isn't there some streamlined way of installing this? I mean, for a
> > feature I never use this is one of largest packages dumped on my disk.
>
> This is poor design of libgweather. There are several dozen .xml locale files,
> each about 1MB or so, plus corresponding .mo localized message files (rather small.)
> gzip compresses each *.xml file about 6:1. Obviously the package should use gzopen.
>
> The workaround is to remove the files for the locales that do not interest you.
>
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Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org>
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