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Questioning the withdom of bundling gdb and insight
- From: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx at aldan dot algebra dot com>
- To: insight at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 22:01:33 -0400
- Subject: Questioning the withdom of bundling gdb and insight
I thought, this was discussed already, but the list's archives don't show it.
What is the rationale behind bundling the entire gdb (which, in turn, bundled
libiberty, bfd), the itcl and itk, etc. into one giant tarball?
Why can't these independent trees remain independent? You can even offer them
all on your download site(s), but someone, who already has itk installed and
gdb downloaded need not download the entire 20Mb of insight-6.4.tar.bz2. All
she needs is a 800Kb of gdbtk and libgui tarred together...
No?
Thanks,
-mi