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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, Molnar Laszlo <molnarl AT cdata DOT tvnet DOT hu>,
        DJGPP workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>,
        robert DOT hoehne AT mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 15:48:50 +0000
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Subject: Re: perl for djgpp
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> > Does this mean that I also had to include in the binutils
> > port all that other big stuff, which normally nobody needs
> > on DJGPP (libbfd.a, libopcodes.a libiberty.a, docs about
> > the internals of BFD, header files for the additional libraries
> > and so on ...) ?
> 
> In my opinion, yes.  If the resulting package is too large, and you think 
> the additional libraries/docs won't be used too much, they can be put 
> into a separate zip file, so only whoever needs them will fetch them.
> 
> But that is only my opinion.

What about creating a directory in the distribution to put these no so common 
zip files. In this way a person that doesn't know much won't download un-needed 
stuff.
For example a dir called v2gnu/advanced.

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