On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:27:56 Gonzalo Tornaria wrote: > > If you are only going to shave off 20 MB or so from the source code, it > > might be more hassle than it is worth. If you could cut the download time > > by 30%, then I could see it would probably be worth the effort in doing > > this. But I'm not so sure you would be able to do that. Too many packages > > are probably too specialised. > > sage 3.0.5 was 188MB, but the debian package (binary) was only 42MB. > The source for the debian package is 57.6MB. > That's an unfair comparison and you know it. To make a good comparison you have to include all the pulled dependencies that are part of sage. Some like python are probably part of your base system so you are indeed saving on them, but pari, flint, singular.... those are not really software that will come by default.
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