On Sat, 23 Jan 2021 at 23:46, Maarten de Vries via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hey, > > On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 at 00:02, David C. Rankin via arch-general < > arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Archdevs, > > > > Why are we splitting postfix by backend? Currently the package is only > > 1.5M > > total. Why would we want to fragment postfix backend capability into > > separate > > packages? With 1T+ average drive size the additional fragmentation doesn't > > make any space savings sense. > > > > If you want to do a fair estimation of space saving, you also have to take > into account the size of the dependencies for each back-end. > > To get an idea, I ran `pacman -S postfix` in a clean chroot, and the result > is 41.36 MB of extra disk usage (ignoring the package cache), 36.26 MB of > which is for different backends (pcre and sqlite were already pulled in by > the base package). Whether that space matters or not depends on a lot of > things, but I think its nice that you can avoid pulling in unnecessary > dependencies. > Allow me to put forward an alternative idea: It should be fairly easy, to have the best of both worlds by demoting the separate backend dependencies to optdepends. This way there is no splitting of a trivial package and anyone wishing to utilise backend Foo, should already have it installed and configured. HTH -Emil
