[PROJ] proj-data is 500MB

Javier Jimenez Shaw j1 at jimenezshaw.com
Fri Jul 24 01:31:14 PDT 2020


Just one comment: if you have several programs that use proj-data, and each
one installs 500 MB, sounds like a waste of space, right?
Does it make sense to install proj-data only once?

Regards
Javier

El vie., 24 jul. 2020 10:16, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl>
escribió:

> On 7/24/20 10:00 AM, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
> > On Fri, 24. Jul 2020 at 09:41:02 +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> >> You could split up the grids per region and only depend on a subset
> >> (excluding au_*, ca_*, de_* & us_* removes most of the very large grids)
> >> and suggest the rest for the users to manually install when they need
> it.
> >
> > I don't want to exclude de completely - esp. because there are grids
> that were
> > previously shipped among it.  The ridiculously large Baden-Württemberg
> grid
> > wasn't and must be excluded.
>
> Then perhaps split the grids by size similar to the
> gmt-gshhg-{low,high,full} packages.
>
> The gmt package in Debian only Recommends gmt-gshhg-low because of size
> constraints for OSGeoLive, despite the authors wanting the full package
> installed by default.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Bas
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