Bloat [was: PSD, SMM and USD manuals]

[Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:15:31 +0300
markucz%gmail.com@localhost wrote:

> machines which don't need pkgsrc at all in the first place. You end up also
> installing lots of other unused packages, like libtool, gettext and texinfo,
> to mention just a few. Eventually it takes much more disk space than *roff in
> base. Not everybody has tens of megabytes free, you know.

Even if I don't particularily feel space or memory constrained, I'm
often amazed at the bloat I see.  Since the topic is on documentation,
I'll only slightly share some recent related grief, as I lately rebuilt
the pulsar-zone repository here:

We used to keep lyx-xforms around, and the GUI applications we need are
Gtk2.  Unfortunately LyX xforms support was dropped and QT is too large
to justify installing it as a second toolkit for a single application
which we (fortunately) seldom-used, so we decided to drop it.

I was also quite amazed at the 191 tex-* packages that got built and
installed when claws-mail documentation building required html2ps,
which needs teTeX (which was admitedly also huge before, but only
installed a few packages, not 191).  Fortunately those were only
build-dependencies, and the other boxes using pkg_add off that
repository are spared :)

But oh well, I guess that's "progress" and vendor lockin avoidance...
and sorry for the noise.
-- 
Matt