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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 18:04:49 +0300
From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
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To: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>
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Subject: Re: BSDL iconv take-over
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Boris Popov wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> 
> > Nice to hear that the progress goes on. I would also propose to merge
> > all iconv-xxx packages into one iconv package, because such separation
> > actually makes very little sense.
> 
>         Actually, package separation makes sense in terms of package size
> and occupied disk space. I think it is still good idea to allow users to
> select groups of required encodings.

The problem is that the luser has no reliable way to specify which
encodings he may need. Therefore it is much easier to have all
possible encodings in one package. Package size bloat and disk space
waste isn't that big - 750KB and 890KB correspondingly.

-Maxim

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