Re: Garnome feature request (was Re: tarball with tar.gz ext)

[Danilo Segan <dsegan gmx net>]

Jeff Waugh wrote:

> > The other idea might be including a "preferred tarball compression" in
> > "gar.conf.mk" as a variable which would work for all garballs which are
> > known to have both available (this should work for all tarballs from
> > ftp.gnome.org).
> >    
>
> Why should this even be an option? bzips are smaller, and a larger
> proportion of GARNOME users use GARNOME to do all the downloading - indeed,
> that's half of what it does.
>  
Ok, forget this kind of option. And as Rodd states it, it might be 
better to check for both.


The other proposed stuff (removing a 100 or so same-looking DIST_FILES 
in Makefiles and replacing them all with one line in category.mk) seems 
more than reasonable to me. It should relieve the maintance work (not 
exactly, since we don't expect GNOME to change the format of tarball 
naming). Actually, all the tarballs that follow the common naming format 
(most of them) should not need to specify it over and over again (this 
should help for new GNOME packages which get included in GARNOME later), 
and category.mk seems as just the right place for it. It will also save 
a few bytes, so GARNOME download will go down for a kilobyte or so ;)

> This seems like unnecessary complexity for a very small proportion of
> GARNOME users.
>  
Very well, I'd have to agree on that, regarding the option.

Cheers,
Danilo