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

From: Piotr Kubaj <pkubaj_at_anongoth.pl>
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2023 22:00:04 UTC
You forgot about the lite flavor. The extra dependencies are there
because of more features, but lite flavor disables all of them.

On 23-07-06 23:57:40, Olivier Cochard-Labbé wrote:
> 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
> ----------------------------------
> 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
> ----------------------------------
> TOTAL size: 752909315 bytes ( 718  megabytes )
> 
> Perhaps it is fast… but it is heavy :-)

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