Re: Packages grow, no longer fit on a 💾

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi Liliana,

Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> writes:

> Am Sonntag, dem 15.01.2023 um 21:09 -0500 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> > > We should do better.  I mean, it’s just a text editor, isn’t it?
>> > Well, gedit is also "just an editor" which weighs 1GB (compared to
>> > 880MB for Emacs) in v1.3.0 and 1.3GB in v1.4.0 (mozjs?).  I think
>> > we ought to look into duplicate references being kept (glibc, gcc),
>> > but we can't really work against packages including more inputs
>> > without reducing their feature set – in some cases we could try
>> > alternatives like mozjs vs. duktape for polkit.
>> 
>> mozjs is already using duktape by default on core-updates, so that
>> particular one is solved.
> s/mozjs/polkit/, right?

Indeed.  See commit e8f4e1808563eb3c1cd28d419a1f349412af4a0d for the
change.

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Thanks,
Maxim