Re: base is too large

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2026 at 03:14:13PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> > 	- racoon and ipsec tools
> > 	- atf
> > 	- iasl
> > 	- ioctlprint
> 
> These are a little baffling.  My last ioctlprint build is <500 KiB on
> amd64, <300 KiB on i386.  How are these (other than iasl, maybe)
> multiple megabytes?  I only have a handful of files in /usr/*bin* and
> /usr/libexec over 1 MiB in my i386 build (dated 2025-12-23) from
> outside comp: the dhcpd binaries, iasl, hostapd, tcpdump, tmux, ntpd,
> wpa_supplicant.  Did something change recently that inflated things?

ipsec & atf are multiple binaries and every program in base is included
on the CD-ROM twice (normal & compressed).