Re: git: 22387af7f781 - main - sysutils/fastfetch: Like neofetch, but much faster because written in C

From: Olivier_Cochard-Labbé <olivier_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2023 21:57:40 UTC 
On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 10:40 PM Piotr Kubaj <pkubaj@anongoth.pl> wrote:

> I actually quite like it, because it's not just a simple shell script,
> of which there are many similar that do the same, but actually quite
> advanced program that can display much more than all the rest I saw.
>
>
let's compare the dependencies it brings vs neofetch:

$ ./pkg-real-size.sh neofetch
List of dependencies and their size:
devel/gettext-runtime : 973673 bytes
devel/readline : 1866398 bytes
neofetch : 349593 bytes
print/indexinfo : 12247 bytes
shells/bash : 9714663 bytes
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TOTAL size: 12916574 bytes ( 12  megabytes )


$ ./pkg-real-size.sh fastfetch
List of dependencies and their size:
archivers/brotli : 1866309 bytes
archivers/libdeflate : 275194 bytes
archivers/liblz4 : 744130 bytes
archivers/libzip : 459874 bytes
archivers/zstd : 3843753 bytes
audio/flac : 7295017 bytes
audio/lame : 2039922 bytes
audio/libogg : 476766 bytes
(etc.)
x11/pixman : 2096813 bytes
x11/xfce4-conf : 881140 bytes
x11/xorgproto : 1447846 bytes
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TOTAL size: 752909315 bytes ( 718  megabytes )

Perhaps it is fast… but it is heavy :-)