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This pages tries to summarise the brainstorm started on -devel about handling huge data packages.

Solution	Resource-hungry	Official	data in .deb format	Easy to apt	Local processing
Package as usual	yes	yes	yes	yes	no
Packgage data and provide processing scripts to other packages	yes, but less duplication	yes	yes	not fine-grained	automated
Dummy package	no	yes	no	yes	manual
Packaged cron script	no	yes	no	yes	automated
Wrapper	no	yes	yes	yes	automated
Fink	no	yes (.info files)	no	no, but fink can manage dependencies	automated
New branch separated from main	optional miroring	yes	yes	yes	no
Unofficial repository	not for Debian	no	yes	needs a key?	no
dpkg --admindir=$HOME/somedirectory	depends	depends	yes	no	no

Other tools to create Debian binary packages are cmake, checkinstall, alien and equivs.

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