Re: Optimized Cygwin package

[David Stacey <drstacey at tiscali dot co dot uk>]

On 04/11/13 14:24, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> On 04/11/2013 7:47 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> > Greetings, Kptain!
> >
> > > Today my Cygwin package is around 1.4Gb.
> > > I've tried to restrict amount of package required by distribution, 
> > > it seems
> > > lot of dependencies are required.
> > > Does someone know how to restrict and optimize Cygwin packages 
> > > knowing I'm
> > > using it only for this applications?
> > Given your list - no.
> > Actually, I'm surprised you've managed to wrest it into 1.5Gb.
> Something sounds very wrong about that...
>
> > >    - gcc
> > >    - python
> > >    - perl
> > >    - mintty
> > >    - shell (mainly tcsh)
> > >    - doxygen
> > >    - make
> > >    - tcl
> Off the top of my head, I would expect GCC to be ~100MB, python 
> 30-60MB, shocked if perl/TCL were each larger than 100MB, mintty is 
> measured in kB, most shells and Make are a handful of MB. Doxygen has 
> no strange dependencies.
>
> Even assuming maximal package sizes, that's only 400MB. Where exactly 
> would you expect the other 1GB come from?
>
> Running 64-bit setup.exe pulls the following default package set

FYI: The 32-bit version of doxygen is a little more interesting, as it 
has clang assisted parsing enabled. Hence 32-bit doxygen also pulls in 
libclang, along with whatever dependencies libclang requires.

Dave.


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