[arch-general] Fwd: [signoff] [extra] postfix 3.5.9-1 (WHY?)

David C. Rankin drankinatty at gmail.com
Sun Jan 24 06:03:12 UTC 2021


On 1/23/21 5:43 PM, Maarten de Vries wrote:
> To get an idea, I ran `pacman -S postfix` in a clean chroot, and the result is
> 41.36 MB of extra disk usage (ignoring the package cache), 36.26 MB of which
> is for different backends (pcre and sqlite were already pulled in by the base
> package). Whether that space matters or not depends on a lot of things, but I
> think its nice that you can avoid pulling in unnecessary dependencies.
> 
> So thank you David!
> 
> Kind regards,
> Maarten

Okay,

  That makes more sense. I was not thinking dependencies. Thank you.


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