Packaged size excessively large
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Inkscape |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The inkscape .deb currently weighs in at 14MB compressed. Which is *huge* for what the program actually needs to be.
A large part of this size are the tutorials, however the size of the binaries (inkscape and inkview) each weigh in at over 8MB:
jr@lichts:~>dpkg -L inkscape | xargs ls -lhdSr | tail -5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 437K 2008-04-07 21:30 /usr/share/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 578K 2008-04-07 21:30 /usr/share/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8M 2008-04-07 21:30 /usr/share/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8.6M 2008-04-07 21:32 /usr/bin/inkview
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8.7M 2008-04-07 21:32 /usr/bin/inkscape
That 'inkview' (a small program for merely viewing SVG files) is only 17kB smaller than the fully-fledged editor is somewhat embarrassing.
The tutorials could be packaged separately as they are not a required dependency of the package, and along with the icons are cross-architecture.
Changed in inkscape: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | New → Confirmed |
This may be addressed somewhat in the code refactoring that's intended for 0.47