[arch-general] why is sage-mathematics so huge?

[Thomas Dziedzic]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Auguste Pop <auguste at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just noticed that there is a sage-mathematics package in community
> repository and tried to install it and found out that the package is
> really huge.
>
> I understand that sage is always shipped in a gigantic bundle, but the
> arch package is considerably larger than official packages provided
> for other Linux distributions. For lzma compressed archives, they are
> typically around 330MB, while the arch package is about 630MB. Why is
> the package so big? I have just noticed that the arch version is
> 4.5.3, the version on its official site is still 4.5.2. Is this the
> reason for the big package?
>
> Thank you for your kind attention.
>
> Yours,
>

Hi Auguste,

I don't know the exact answer to this question, but I think I may know why.
Currently, sage keeps all the spkgs in the package.
Also it is built with fat binaries although this itself probably
doesn't add such a significant amount.
I'll investigate this and let you know.