the size of Evolution

Bogdan Butnaru bogdanb at gmail.com
Sat Apr 19 13:09:30 BST 2008


And why aren't those in an evolution-doc package?

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
<pochu at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Jeff wrote:
>  > Hello folks, this is more of a culture/curiosity question that spawned
>  > while I was reading a thread in the forums... The evolution-common
>  > package in ubuntu weights 93.4 MiB. After openoffice.org-core, this is
>  > the heaviest package installed in ubuntu by default. I personally like
>  > evolution, and I'd like it to be kept part of the default installation,
>  > I was just wondering: what on earth can be so heavy in evolution-common?
>  > They certainly don't have over 8 million lines of codes like openoffice, no?
>  >
>  > Anyone has a clue why this package is so heavy? Just curious, thanks!
>  >
>
>  emilio at saturno:~$ dpkg -L evolution-common | grep '\.png' | wc -l
>  1370
>
>  That's mostly the images for the documentation. It ships the images for a lot of
>  locales, as some of them are localized.
>
>  Emilio
>
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