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Re: Why does installing icedtea-1.13.12 install the docs and jdk, too?


From: Hartmut Goebel
Subject: Re: Why does installing icedtea-1.13.12 install the docs and jdk, too?
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 16:37:23 +0200
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Am 16.09.2016 um 16:05 schrieb ng0:
> I think you are confusing installation with downloading. 

Maybe :-) But I'd expect that only packages to be installed are
downloaded. Otherwise this would be a wast of time and bandwidth.

> if (I have not checked it) icedtea is just one package with multiple outputs,
it is.

> all outputs will be downloaded 

But why? I do not see any reason for downloading packages which their
are neither requested nor installed. If all outputs are downloaded, what
should be the sense of having different outputs?

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Hartmut Goebel

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