Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 10:16:16PM +1000, Simon Burge wrote:
> > [separating sets in md and mi usr/share]
> > 
> > Until then, does this sound like a reasonable way to do things?
> 
> Could't this just be solved by asking tar/pax to not extract usr/share ?
> Easy to do from sysinst by  a bit more work for manual installs/upgrades.

I think you've got it back to front - having N (where N is well over
a dozen) copies of the _same_files_ takes up needless space in a
multi-archtecture distribtuion.  Some of these are just plain big (the
dictionaries, termcap) and others there's heaps of (man pages).  We only
need one copy of each in an entire distribtuion.

> Just thinking ... I'm not opposed to have each set split into md and share
> sets as well.

In case it wasn't obvious, there would only exist _one_ "<set>_s.tgz"
for each set name in a distribtuion and lots of links in each of the
arch dirs to those sets.  I'm attacking this from a large space-saving
angle, not an easy of installation angle.

Simon.