From: Marc Weber <marco-oweber@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:11:00 GMT
Subject: Distribution size
Message-ID: <1253962653-sup-1882@nixos>

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