[haiku-development] Re: Do optional packages need to include everything they do?
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:40:57 +0200
On 2009-08-31 at 11:30:37 [+0200], Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> some of the current alpha image's optional packages seem to include much
> too much stuff. I have not yet updated the OptionalPackages file with all
> the latest packages, but I assume nothing has changed in this regard.
> Particularily, the Perl and Python packages seem to include all sorts of
> stuff, and I have not yet looked whether all of that is actually important
> or also includes tests. At lest we copy a whole bunch of "test_xxx.py[c|o]"
> files.
Just had a look through the perl package and I couldn't spot anything
obviously superfluous. Perl comes with quite a bit of documentation, which
weighs a few MB, there seem to be large encoding and Unicode related tables,
and there are quite a lot of modules.
CU, Ingo
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