Ridiculously large packages

Steve McIntyre steve at einval.com
Fri Nov 20 10:36:10 UTC 2009


Umm...

Package: nexuiz-data
Priority: optional
Section: games
Installed-Size: 782252
Maintainer: Debian Games Team
<pkg-games-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 2.5.2-1
Recommends: nexuiz (>= 2.5.2) | nexuiz-server (>= 2.5.2)
Suggests: nexuiz-music (>= 2.5.2)
Conflicts: nexuiz (<< 2.5.2), nexuiz-server (<< 2.5.2)
Filename: pool/main/n/nexuiz-data/nexuiz-data_2.5.2-1_all.deb
Size: 793400238
...

If you ever want this to be available on Debian CDs, you're going to
have to do something about the size. For now, I'm going to blacklist
this package altogether.

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
< sladen> I actually stayed in a hotel and arrived to find a post-it
          note stuck to the mini-bar saying "Paul: This fridge and
          fittings are the correct way around and do not need altering"


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