Importing RAWs as aliases

My apologies - I think I originally posted this in the wrong forum (the 'editing' one). If a moderator could delete the other one that would be great.
I was really happy to find that iPhoto 6 now lets the user import images as aliases leaving the originals where they are. At a stroke this solves my major problem with previous versions of iPhoto which is the huge size of the library and my need to keep all photos on external drives.
The trouble is, for the last year or so, I've been shooting almost exclusively in RAW. When I import a folder containing RAWs, iPhoto 06 automatically creates a full-size JPEG and places it in my iPhoto Library's 'Modified' folder. So I still have an iPhoto Library on my local drive that's around 10gb in size and which duplicates my originals.
How can I stop iPhoto creating JPEG duplicates of my RAWs on import? I'd like my thumbnails to point to my original RAWs via a local alias, and convert to a full-size JPEG only when I edit the image.

you can import any number. there is no limit.
but you're not doing it correctly. if those are class files,
they should not have a .as suffix in the import statement. if those
are just as files, you should be using an include, not import
statement.

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