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Distribution size

From
MWMarc Weber <marco-oweber@gmx.de>
Date
Sep 26, 2009, 11:11 UTC
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Hi,
Has anyone thought about reducing distribution size ?
comparison:

git-1.6.4.4 i%du -hs . 115M .

mercurial-1.0.2 i%du -hs . 5.4M .

bazaar-1.10rc1 i%du -hs 21M .

darcs-2.2.1 i%du -hs /nix/store/8xwfavyv22pvm3s60wvzcbq561fjk5di-darcs-2.2.1 nixos 32M .

There was an attempt to reduce size by using a shared library in 2007: http://markmail.org/message/vzukaie4qvbghkq5

So is there a reason why git takes up so much more disk space other than that its using many small executables?

Marc Weber
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