maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 264783] graphics/mesa-dri pulls in the entire llvm package
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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 09:02:55 UTC
Bugzilla Automation <bugzilla@FreeBSD.org> has asked freebsd-x11 (Nobody) <x11@FreeBSD.org> for maintainer-feedback: Bug 264783: graphics/mesa-dri pulls in the entire llvm package https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=264783 --- Description --- I was hunting through my system for disk wasters and I noticed that llvm13--which I don't use--is installed, consuming some 1.4 gigabytes of space. It gets pulled in because the mesa-dri package depends on it. However, the only thing mesa-dri seems to care about is libLLVM-13.so, a mere 94 megabytes. Because X requires mesa-dri, any system using X will have over a gigabyte of space that is very likely entirely wasted. Disk is cheap. It is not *that* cheap. (Especially since a scan of my other disk wasters suggests that mesa-dri is not the only package that pulls in large packages but uses only small parts of them.) Unless mesa-dri really needs a significant fraction of llvm's functionality, it would make a lot more sense to simply include the needed parts of llvm in mesa-dri.