From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [200.17.161.174] (helo=listas.ossystems.com.br) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LXlYw-0005DO-Js for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:05:47 +0100 Received: from internet.ossystems.com.br (201-40-162-47.cable.viacabocom.com.br [201.40.162.47]) by listas.ossystems.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB3FE4025B; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:04:42 -0200 (BRST) Received: from ossystems.com.br (unknown [10.1.0.243]) by internet.ossystems.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1974C740D9; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:04:36 -0200 (BRST) Received: by ossystems.com.br (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B9D886101F6; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:04:23 -0200 (BRST) From: Otavio Salvador To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Organization: O.S. Systems Ltda. References: <1234456715-23618-1-git-send-email-otavio@ossystems.com.br> <1234456715-23618-2-git-send-email-otavio@ossystems.com.br> <1234456715-23618-3-git-send-email-otavio@ossystems.com.br> <1234456715-23618-4-git-send-email-otavio@ossystems.com.br> <1234460865.3592.2.camel@mill.internal.reciva.com> <49946CA4.6060303@dls.net> <1234478544.4890.404.camel@lenovo.internal.reciva.com> X-URL: http://www.debian.org/~otavio/ X-Attribution: O.S. Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:04:23 -0200 In-Reply-To: <1234478544.4890.404.camel@lenovo.internal.reciva.com> (Phil Blundell's message of "Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:42:24 +0000") Message-ID: <871vu3mcc8.fsf@neumann.lab.ossystems.com.br> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.90 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] package.bbclass, package_ipk.bbclass: add dynamic depends on locale packages (ipk specific) X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:05:47 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Phil Blundell writes: > On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 12:38 -0600, Mike (mwester) wrote: >> Phil Blundell wrote: >> > This looks like it will add locale dependencies to all the subpackages >> > (e.g. foo-doc, foo-dev and the like) as well as the main "foo" package, >> > which is a bit different to how the old code used to work. But I guess >> > that's harmless enough: the worst effect will be to bloat the Packages >> > file a bit, and I doubt anybody will care too much. So, thumbs up from >> > me. >> >> How much bloat? > > For a source package "foo", you'd be talking about adding one copy of > the literal string "foo-locale-*" to the Depends line for each of its > subpackages (foo-doc, foo-dev, foo-dbg and the like). The exact amount > obviously depends on the length of the package name, but I guess you > could call it about 16 bytes per binary package as a rough > approximation. > > Exactly what the real-world impact of that would be will depend on your > distro policy. If you already strip out the -dev and -doc packages from > the main Packages feed then obviously the impact will be virtually nil > because most of the affected packages won't be there in the first place. > At the other extreme, if your Packages files currently contain > everything from the control data (including Source:, Description: and so > on) then they are probably so huge already that another sixteen bytes > per package is negligible in percentage terms. > > If those 16*n bytes did turn out to cause a problem for someone then it > probably wouldn't be that hard to reinstate the original behaviour of > only adding this dependency on the primary binary. Now I have two good points and I'm uncertain where to go :-) Push it and sort the regressions out depending how hard is it or make it optional? -- O T A V I O S A L V A D O R --------------------------------------------- E-mail: otavio@debian.org UIN: 5906116 GNU/Linux User: 239058 GPG ID: 49A5F855 Home Page: http://otavio.ossystems.com.br --------------------------------------------- "Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house."