Re:My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019)
by fsckboy on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:39PM
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> why are you installing so many packages that you don't need just to complain about it?
there are 1000s of packages, who has time to select a small subset of that? easier to install chubby swathes at a time.
and you can't install devel versions without bringing in many various forms of TeX
recently I install the emacs package on a system and it required python; that's sacrilege
Re:My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019)
by kevingadd on Monday August 23, 2021 @08:40PM
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Your dev linux machine is a gigabyte? That's kind of surprising. Just llvm+clang on my machine according to your query clocks in at over a gigabyte. Are you only developing using perl and not doing any from-source builds?
As for Linux package sizes go... why are you installing so many packages that you don't need just to complain about it?
On Debian and Ubuntu, `dpkg-query -Wf '${Installed-Size}\t${Package}\n' | sort -n` will tell you the install size of things sorted by worst offender; for me, on one of my development machines, is git, followed by Perl packages required by the system, neovim, and then a bunch of normal things expected on any install. `df -h` minus `/home` is a hair over 600mb.
git, being the largest thing, has an install size of 38 megs. Indeed, I cannot tell you why git is 38 megs, there may or may not be bloat here.
As a comparison, Windows uses around 6GB of space, and a MSVC install that has a common set of toolchains may take up to 20GB and... arguably does less than my <1GB Linux install (when it comes to dev work, anyways).