Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] The *purge* was Re: the Sugar port

[Caroline F. <car...@go...>]

On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 11:26 -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 11:20:05AM +0000, Caroline Ford wrote:
> > Arrgh. How do you know we have too much stuff? I've been making things
> > like brushes and stamps presuming that we can never really have too
> > much. 
> 
> Well, remember he's on a much more restrictive environment, being on the XO-1.
> (Extremely reduced RAM and filespace, compared to a 'normal' modern desktop
> or laptop.)
fair enough. I presumed this was cross platform - it seems really
obvious that different platforms get different amounts of content.
> 
> > Is this just a packaging problem?
> 
> Are the Ubuntu folks against simply having separate stamp packages based
> on the various Makefile targets?  Shin-Ichi has been building separate
> RPM packages for stamps, based on that.

It's not the Ubuntu folks as much as some users (I think they are from
Baltix which is an Ubuntu based distro targeting the Baltic states of
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia)

The stamps package is massive though (20 meg), they do have a point.
They really just wanted to make the stamps optional, but also requested
cleverer packaging.

Caroline