hydrogen-drumkits package

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Mon Sep 14 21:58:12 UTC 2015


Quoting Jaromír Mikeš (2015-09-14 23:09:20)
> Hi Alessio, Jonas, others
> 
> I jumped in to updating hydrogen-drumkits package ... I updated it and
> realize that it is really huge! :(  ... About 250MB
> I think something so big doesn't make sense distribute in debian.
> 
> What we should do with it?
> 
> 1) Ask the upstream to make just "basic" collection of drumkits ( e.g.
> about 20MB ) package it and let users download whatever they want from
> internet?
> 
> 2) Create package which wouldn't contain drumkits itselfs but only
> script for downloading and installing drumkits?
> 
> 3) Other solution?

Would be nice to ask upstream if possible to _also_ provide a smaller 
subset, but 250MB is not strictly too big - see e.g. alien-arena-data.

 - Jonas

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