Optimized Cygwin package

[David Stacey]

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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