On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > Back with some results :) I have gone through the directory to see what made it so big, and I realized my initial suspicions were correct. I have removed about 300mb of spkgs (compressed) and a lot of extraneous logs. The changes are already in trunk along with a few other bug fixes. Changes should be visible for the next sage release (4.6). Thanks for your interest!
