[Linux-disciples] -doc packages

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 08:15:09PM -0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> > To (let people) save space.
> Easy enough. I thought maybe there would be a more
> complicated explanation, but I wasn't being sufficiently
> Ockhamite.

Right. You might want to have a custom Debian distribution for, e.g., a
USB memory stick.  Documentation in some cases is as large or larger than
the accompanying binaries.

Somewhere there is a list of principles for when files should be in
separate packages rather than combined, maybe the Debian Developer
Reference, but basically in most cases you want to separate into multiple
packages if the separate units are not essential for the functioning of
the main package. It can also save on bandwidth--many small changes to
the executable package don't result in any changes to the documentation,
so the Debian mirrors don't have to transfer sa much data for these small
updates.
-- 
Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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