Thank you for such a quick reply. I have another little problem here. The desktop file in the package uses the icon /opt/sage/notebook/sage_logo.png, but this file is not installed. > Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:07:57 -0500 > From: Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] why is sage-mathematics so huge? > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTi=sBzYQc0VmbxVeHS5W3NtPAXmG7jWapaxPB-Yg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > 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! > >
