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Re: exchange with Richard Stallman

I'm still on last night's email, but I thought I should point
something out:  my 3x size increase was obtained by examining one test
case.  Furthermore, it was obtained by only examining the binary --
not documentation or library files.  Finally, the number is not
relevant to the size of a compressed package -- symbols probably
compress differently from code.

Here's a slightly more elaborate test:

bash$ ls -l tmp/*.deb
-rw-r--r--   2 root     root       294751 Feb 12 16:03 tmp/debian.deb
-rw-r--r--   1 root     rdm        380575 Mar 26 15:40 tmp/test.deb

This is a debian package with the binary compiled -g (yes, it's the
same one that increased in size 3x).  I'd call this, roughly, a 30%
increase in package size.

I'd also like to point out that this is just a single instance -- not
enough to base a reasonable conclusion on.  Here's another data point:
my /usr/bin has about 55 megs of binaries in it.  My /usr partition
has about 360 megs on it.  I'm not sure how to quantify /usr/lib, but
du reported about 35 megs in .so* and .a* files (which is sure to
include some duplication, because of softlinks).

Please, can't we just defer decision making on this till after 1.1?

-- 
Raul