From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: src.zip, demos and samples in java idk Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2016 16:04:47 +0200 Message-ID: <87bn05krk0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <57CA731E.3060900@goebel-consult.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34300) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bgBZ2-0004yA-QV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2016 10:04:57 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bgBYx-0007LK-LX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2016 10:04:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <57CA731E.3060900@goebel-consult.de> (Hartmut Goebel's message of "Sat, 3 Sep 2016 08:52:14 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Hartmut Goebel Cc: guix-devel Hi, Hartmut Goebel skribis: > I discovered that the "jdk" of icedtea includes "demos", "samples" and > even a "src.zip" file. These are as big as 50 MB, where the src.zip > contributes by 43 MB. Thee 50MB are ca. 12% of the whole jdk. > > IMHO, all of these should not be there since they are rarely needed. > Also it is common security best-practice to *not* include any demo code > on production systems - which should at least followed by such large > packages. The reasoning is that demos and examples are often prone to > errors and offering attack points. > > Shall I move these to "doc" or to a new output (e.g. "examples"). It would make sense to move them to =E2=80=9Cdoc=E2=80=9D, indeed; we=E2=80= =99ve done it in other packages. Ludo=E2=80=99.