> * Christian Brabandt [230323 18:19]:
> > I downloaded the `vim-runtime` Debian bullseye [package
> > ](https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/all/vim-runtime/download). It
> > is compressed of size 6MB. uncompressed 35MB.
> > `/usr/share/vim/vim82/doc` alone has 8.6MB. I then removed everything
> > except for `/usr/share/doc` and `/usr/share/vim/vim82/doc`, and
> > packaged it back as tar.xz package (which seems to be used by the
> > Debian package internally). The new archive was then 2MB.
> >
> > That does not seem too bad, also I am still surprised it is that much
> > documentation.
> >
> > In comparison, the vim-tiny package is 700K, the `vim-tiny` binary has
> > 1.4MB. Okay that is still significant less than just the hypothetical
> > vim-help package, so maybe not such a good idea after all.
>
> I was about to suggest that vim-tiny include its own copy of uganda.txt,
> which vim-runtime would then divert like it does for help.txt, but I
> think the best solution is just to move uganda.txt into vim-common. It
> increases the installed size of vim-tiny and dependencies by only 13k,
> makes uganda.txt available to all versions of vim, and is trivial to do
> (alright, maybe there is some packaging trickiness when moving an
> existing file from one package to another, but it is doable).
I haven't tried it, but I think this also requires a version of
runtime/doc/tags that only has the valid tags. Otherwise some
unexpected errors would appear.
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