> * Christian Brabandt <[email protected]> [230323 18:19]: > > I downloaded the `vim-runtime` Debian bullseye [package > > ](https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/all/vim-runtime/download). It > > is compressed of size 6MB. uncompressed 35MB. > > `/usr/share/vim/vim82/doc` alone has 8.6MB. I then removed everything > > except for `/usr/share/doc` and `/usr/share/vim/vim82/doc`, and > > packaged it back as tar.xz package (which seems to be used by the > > Debian package internally). The new archive was then 2MB. > > > > That does not seem too bad, also I am still surprised it is that much > > documentation. > > > > In comparison, the vim-tiny package is 700K, the `vim-tiny` binary has > > 1.4MB. Okay that is still significant less than just the hypothetical > > vim-help package, so maybe not such a good idea after all. > > I was about to suggest that vim-tiny include its own copy of uganda.txt, > which vim-runtime would then divert like it does for help.txt, but I > think the best solution is just to move uganda.txt into vim-common. It > increases the installed size of vim-tiny and dependencies by only 13k, > makes uganda.txt available to all versions of vim, and is trivial to do > (alright, maybe there is some packaging trickiness when moving an > existing file from one package to another, but it is doable).
I haven't tried it, but I think this also requires a version of runtime/doc/tags that only has the valid tags. Otherwise some unexpected errors would appear. -- Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it. /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// \\\ \\\ sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/20230325212859.2FBB21C03FD%40moolenaar.net.
