From 0f0301b746e501190fd7107c1d1ce2da6ae40346 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Hood Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 23:49:56 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Describe reasons to do mosh-{server,client} packaging. --- README.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 50388bc..aadce97 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -139,6 +139,11 @@ saving almost 200 kilobytes on disk). While Mosh is not especially CPU intensive and mostly sits idle when the user is not typing, we think the results suggest that `-O2` (the default) is preferable. +Our Debian and Fedora packaging presents Mosh as a single package. +Mosh has a Perl dependency that is only required for client use. For +some platforms, it may make sense to have separate mosh-server and +mosh-client packages to allow mosh-server usage without Perl. + More info ---------