Trimming bzr package size

Brad Schick schickb at gmail.com
Tue Jun 9 07:29:32 BST 2009


On 6/8/2009 10:35 PM, Brad Schick wrote:
> I am deploying bzr 1.15 on Ubuntu Linux systems and noticed that the PPA
> for bzr 1.15 is rather large for a command-line tool (currently just
> over 5MB). 
I just noticed that the bzr debian package contains many tests. Seems
like this should be part of the source distribution and not part of the
standard install. After install, /usr/share/pyshared/bzrlib/tests is 6.7M.

For comparison, the .deb for Mercurial is 86KB. That would be a nice
target for bazaar. git-core is also rather large since it is composed of
125+ separate executables, many of which are 795K on disk for some reason.

-Brad



More information about the bazaar mailing list