On 20.07.2019 20:19, David Holland wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 08:37:26PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > > > I find it boggling that anyone actually cares this much. Git already > > > pulls in a ton of stuff even if you only install git-base. > > > > git can survive more or less with a C compiler only. git-base just adds > > curl and perl with 5 packages for practical reasons as it's difficult to > > live without them. This dependency graph can compete with fossil or cvs. > > 5 packages? It pulls in pcre2, curl, libunistring, both libidn and > libidn2, plus perl and 17 assorted perl modules, which is a mess in > its own right. git-gitk adds to this: tk and tcl. > > tcl and tk together are not even a third the size of perl. > > cvs depends on nothing (except the zlib in base) so you're way off the > mark. > The package is fatter, but git itself can disable all of them and can live without event pthread and iconv.
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