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[Sergei Golubchik <sergii@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Arjen!

On Dec 14, Arjen Lentz wrote:
> On 14/12/2009, at 12:39 PM, Igor Babaev wrote:
>> There should be a common sense after all.
>> Adding 7K files from boost doesn't comply with a common sense.
>> no matter what Arjen thinks about it.
>> If oqgraph cannot do without boost in the MariaDB development tree we'd
>> better drop oqgraph.
>
> It's not much in size, it's numbers of files that you're concerned about - 
> and I fully share your concern.

That's size too

janus pts/1 ~ % ll /usr/portage/distfiles/boost* -h
-rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage 4.5K Sep  1  2008 /usr/portage/distfiles/boost-patches-1.35.0-3.tbz2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage 5.5K Nov 27 18:52 /usr/portage/distfiles/boost-patches-1.35.0-5.tbz2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage  23M Mar 29  2008 /usr/portage/distfiles/boost_1_35_0.tar.bz2
janus pts/1 ~ % equery size boost-1.35
[ Searching for packages matching boost-1.35... ]
* size of dev-libs/boost-1.35.0-r5
           Total files : 5790
           Total size  : 94270.54 KiB
* size of dev-util/boost-build-1.35.0-r2
           Total files : 134
           Total size  : 1466.30 KiB

that's 23M in bzipped sources and 94M when installed.

But independent of that, I think boost as an external dependency should
be fine. At least until there will be an indication that it's not.

Regards / Mit vielen Grüßen,
Sergei

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