On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Auguste Pop <auguste@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I just noticed that there is a sage-mathematics package in community > repository and tried to install it and found out that the package is > really huge. > > I understand that sage is always shipped in a gigantic bundle, but the > arch package is considerably larger than official packages provided > for other Linux distributions. For lzma compressed archives, they are > typically around 330MB, while the arch package is about 630MB. Why is > the package so big? I have just noticed that the arch version is > 4.5.3, the version on its official site is still 4.5.2. Is this the > reason for the big package? > > Thank you for your kind attention. > > Yours, > Hi Auguste, I don't know the exact answer to this question, but I think I may know why. Currently, sage keeps all the spkgs in the package. Also it is built with fat binaries although this itself probably doesn't add such a significant amount. I'll investigate this and let you know.
