On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 07:18:40PM +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> The point is, we've done this in the past where we shipped
the data with
> the tools, and we very quickly moved to shipping the data separate - it's
> cleaner, allows for just updating the data when necessary, and it forces
> people to keep their API & ABI for accessing it stable. :)
+1 million - another data point - ca-certificates package - it was much
cleaner to split it out of openssl.
Ditto splitting of timezone data from glibc-common to tzdata.
Jakub