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Re: Racket: Move DrRacket to a separate output?


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: Racket: Move DrRacket to a separate output?
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 10:49:06 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux)

Hello Pierre,

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> skribis:

> Wouldn't it make sense to move DrRacket to a separate output?  I take
> that most advanced users use something else (who said Emacs?) and
> DrRacket might eat up a decent amount of disk space + extra dependencies
> by itself.

I don’t think it’s a matter of being an “advanced” user or not (DrRacket
is really impressive, with a macro stepper and all sorts of bells and
whistles), but I agree with the rationale.  :-)

> Arch Linux provides racket and racket-minimal: the latter is stripped
> from DrRacket:
>
>       https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=racket

Such a split sounds good to me.  What do Chris and other Racketeers
think?

Cheers,
Ludo’.



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