On 19 Jun 2008, at 07:33, Chris Ridd wrote:

>
> On 18 Jun 2008, at 23:37, Shawn Walker wrote:
>
>> What exactly is in this git package?
>
> Everything, guis and manpages included, from <http://git.or.cz/>.
> Mostly the space is taken by the 106 binaries, the majority being ~
> 2MB in size when stripped (and 6MB when not).

So compiling and linking with -g are a cause of bloating, but I've  
noticed that a lot of binaries are actually hard links to each other  
and my package manifest didn't handle that.

An installed tree built with -xO3 and stripped comes to around 11MB,  
which is far more reasonable.

Cheers,

Chris
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