On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 at 06:38PM -0800, John H Palmieri wrote: > > The new polybori spkg is over three times as large as the previous one! > > Does anyone know why? I see that the source got updated, but why did it, > > in two months, triple in size? > > Unpacked, the two aren't that different in size. The new version > includes a mercurial repository inside the source directory (in src/ > polybori-0.6), and I think that's the problem: it includes files that > probably don't compress well.
Ah, that explains it. I made a .tar.bz2 file of that .hg directory, and sure enough, it's about 4.5 megabytes, and is almost exactly the size difference. Dan -- --- Dan Drake ----- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake -------
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