Re: bulk-small and jpeg

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 11:40:28AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
 > Perhaps jpeg should just be dropped.  I realize by asking that I'm
 > bringing up a different question, which is that maybe bulk-* should only
 > include packages that someone might want, vs libraries that we know are
 > wanted by many packages.  emacs22 already depends on jpeg, just to pick
 > the first thing I noticed.

The bulk-* packages contain commonly used libraries (of which jpeg is
one of the most commonly used, after all) on the grounds that they're
supposed to be maximally useful sets of things to be precompiled.
That includes both for installing directly and for installing to use
to build something else that isn't on the list.

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David A. Holland
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