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Re: Packages grow, no longer fit on a 💾


From: Maxim Cournoyer
Subject: Re: Packages grow, no longer fit on a 💾
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2023 21:09:37 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux)

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.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim



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