From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2005-01-16T23:13:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug#290705: ruby: Ruby is completly vivisected.

* Kristof Bastiaensen <kristof@vleeuwen.org> [0156 13:56]:
> > Not only that, a few megs of disk space is nothing.
> 
> It all adds up.  A few megs for Python, a few megs for Perl, a few
> megs for *insert obscure language or library here*.  Really, it
> matters when everyone thinks like this.

Yes, but these aren't just docs we're talking about - things like yaml,
webrick et al are in the base on 1.8. To me that's one of the big features
of 1.8, and having them split up into separate debs is a real pain.
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