[arch-dev-public] doc size

[Dan McGee]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> Xavier wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I like this gnome feature that warns me about running out of space and
>>> proposes me to run a disk usage analyzer (baobab).
>>> Looking at the results, I found out that /usr/share/doc was taking a
>>> non negligible space : 140M
>>> It's actually the 3rd biggest directory in my filesystem after two
>>> games (openarena and flightgear). Well maybe 4th if I also count
>>> warsow in /opt :)
>>>
>>> It's especially gtkmm that made me go wtf. It takes 48MB. I checked
>>> the package size, 60MB.
>>> The next entries are far away, at 10MB, but still. Compared to the
>>> package size, they can still be pretty big (more than half).
>>> That made me want to check the proportion of docs in each package, and
>>> I quickly hacked a script together.
>>> I am pretty sure this subject has come here before, but I don't
>>> remember seeing any results, so I will post them here.
>>> That might help to establish some reasonable limits for when a package
>>> should be split. And with makepkg supporting that now, it's much
>>> better than before.
>>
>>
>> Didn't Dan post a patch for namcap to check the relative proportion of docs
>> at some stage?
>>
>
> Indeed, that's awesome. Seems I missed or forgot it.
> It's actually the only patch that came up after namcap 2.4 so there
> hasn't been a new release yet.
> http://projects.archlinux.org/namcap.git/
>
> I will try it to compare with my results.
> I don't think that makes my results worthless though, I see both tools
> as complementary.
> Mine allows to quickly see what are the worst packages in your cache
> (either in ratio or in docsize), so that they can be treated in
> priority.

Yeah, I can't remember which package it was that I noticed this on,
but it might have been gtkmm and it made me go "WTF" as well, thus the
reason for the patch.

-Dan