VLC mpv huge package size

[goyalyashpal]

Hi!

• The video player packages are huge in sizes of both download and install
• ... 10-20X the size of their corresponding official releases

	packages (MiB)	official releases (MiB)
mpv	mingw-w64-mpv : 390-410 MiB | 2290-2570 MiB	mpv : 20-30 MiB | 100 MiB
vlc	mingw-w64-vlc : 420-440 MiB | 2430-2730 MiB	vlc : 40-70 MiB | 200 MiB

Questions:

• What's the reason 🤔
• Is there a general metric where i should expect the packages to be larger than releases,
• ... and where i should expect packages to be smaller than releases

$  pacboy debug -S vlc:c <<< n
:: Executing pacman --color auto -S mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-vlc...

Packages (206)

Total Download Size:    422.34 MiB
Total Installed Size:  2435.02 MiB

$  pacboy debug -S vlc:x <<< n
:: Executing pacman --color auto -S mingw-w64-x86_64-vlc...

Packages (202)

Total Download Size:    435.54 MiB
Total Installed Size:  2732.94 MiB

$  pacboy debug -S vlc:u <<< n
:: Executing pacman --color auto -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-vlc...

Packages (206)

Total Download Size:    438.27 MiB
Total Installed Size:  2737.95 MiB

[Biswa96]

In the pacboy command, you are calculating the size of vlc and all dependencies.

[Biswa96]

The mingw packages contain static and shared libraries and header files also.

[goyalyashpal]

can u elaborate a bit?

[Biswa96]

See the file list of any dependencies here https://packages.msys2.org/package/mingw-w64-x86_64-vlc?repo=mingw64

[goyalyashpal]

ohkay.

OT: is the situation similar on linux distros?

[Biswa96]

Depends on the Linux distributions.

[goyalyashpal]

• Is there a general metric where i should expect the packages to be larger than releases,
• ... and where i should expect packages to be smaller than releases

any input regarding this?

[Biswa96]

more code + more dependencies = bigger package

[goyalyashpal]

just one example of the otherwise obvious thing: it's not always that one repo will have smaller package sizes. and :x i.e. more softwares are availeble in normal mingw's repo, latest example being: octave 8.1.0-1 which's not available for clang repo

for package meld3 the "Visual diff and merge tool". here too, the v3.22 msi installer from meldmerge.org is just 36 MiB

$  pacboy debug -S meld3:x <<< n
Packages (63)
Total Download Size:    87.16 MiB
Total Installed Size:  578.62 MiB

$ pacboy debug -Ss meld3:c <<< n
Packages (67)
Total Download Size:    92.17 MiB
Total Installed Size:  583.06 MiB

$  pacboy debug -S meld3:u <<< n
Packages (67)
Total Download Size:    89.79 MiB
Total Installed Size:  583.73 MiB

2023.03.06:

$ pacboy -S cppcheck:x <<< n
Packages (4)
Total Download Size:    4.05 MiB
Total Installed Size:  19.61 MiB

$ pacboy -S cppcheck:c <<< n
Packages (7)
Total Download Size:    5.33 MiB
Total Installed Size:  32.23 MiB

$ pacboy -S cppcheck:u <<< n
Packages (7)
Total Download Size:    5.01 MiB
Total Installed Size:  22.76 MiB

2023.03.11

$ pacboy -S gnome-calculator:x <<< n 2>/dev/null | grep -Eo "Packages \(\.*\)|.*Size:.*"
Packages (90)
Total Download Size:   117.60 MiB
Total Installed Size:  786.64 MiB

$ pacboy -S gnome-calculator:c <<< n 2>/dev/null | grep -Eo "Packages \(\.*\)|.*Size:.*"
Packages (95)
Total Download Size:   122.94 MiB
Total Installed Size:  781.45 MiB

$ pacboy -S gnome-calculator:u <<< n 2>/dev/null | grep -Eo "Packages \(\.*\)|.*Size:.*"
Packages (94)
Total Download Size:   120.23 MiB
Total Installed Size:  792.15 MiB