Re: New external dependecy request (ICU)

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:44:03PM +0100, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> What do you think?.

  That this library is HUGE ! 
paphio:~ -> ls -l /u/veillard/rpms/RPMS/i386/*icu*.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 veillard www       7063462 Oct  9 14:23 /u/veillard/rpms/RPMS/i386/icu-2.6.1-1.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 veillard www       1022018 Oct  9 14:23 /u/veillard/rpms/RPMS/i386/icu-locales-2.6.1-1.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 veillard www       4722422 Oct  9 14:23 /u/veillard/rpms/RPMS/i386/libicu26-2.6.1-1.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 veillard www       1363288 Oct  9 14:23 /u/veillard/rpms/RPMS/i386/libicu-devel-2.6.1-1.i386.rpm
paphio:~ ->

  yes seven Megabytes ! When I see how much of a hard time I have
because libxml2 size, I find this a bit hard to make a hard dependancy
on such a big library for some translation. 
  Can you make a clear case of why we need this ? It's not like
a small library to interface to the kernel or implement a well contained
functionnality.

Daniel

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