[rkward-devel] rkward on mac

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

Hi,

On Tuesday 29 November 2011, meik michalke wrote:
> erm, there is one now: 800MB. to say it with famous words of john crichton:
> "that's big. that's really big." i haven't figured out yet if/how you can
> ban certain pulled-in dependecies from an image (like the kdepim package,
> for a start). i hope there is a sane way.

well, yes that *is* big. I suppose, feeding this through a good compressor 
does not help much? But also, in these times of cheap bandwidth, downloading 
800MB may be sort of ok to many users. Can macports also build a source meta 
package? Once we start looking into distributing a binary package, we need to 
provide (or at least offer) that, too, for GPL-compliance.

BTW, one question just occurred to me: In the rkward wrapper script, the 
location of the R binary is hard-coded (at build time). Does this have to be 
adjusted (and is there a way to adjust it), when users install the package? Or 
are they forced to install to a fixed location, anyway?

> [hint: any "depends_build" declarations will not be put in the image, but
> all "depends_lib". but even the kate port alone defined there lead to a
> 460MB image, and didn't even work... so it might be better to keep all
> kde4-baseapps in and selectively remove sub-ports we know we won't need]

Is there an easy option to generate a list of all dependencies, and their 
sizes in the meta package?

In my experience with the window binaries, the "leaves" of the dependency-tree 
are not all that large in comparison. But the further you move down in the 
depends, the more difficult it is probably to get things right.

> apart from that, the whole build only took about nine hours on that
> workhorse, which is much faster than i had thought.

Yes, that sounds almost managable.

Regards
Thomas
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