development packages and multilib

[Callum Lerwick]

On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 08:07 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Callum Lerwick wrote:
> > ...Why is libgweather alone bigger than kdelibs?
> 
> http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/p/11394/195305.aspx
> (No, I'm not the one who posted that thread.)

Dear god.

$ cat /usr/share/libgweather/* > /tmp/gweather
$ ls -lh /tmp/gweather
-rw-rw-r--. 1 seg seg  75M 2009-04-21 02:22 /tmp/gweather
$ lzma --best -v /tmp/gweather 
/tmp/gweather:	 98.1% -- replaced with /tmp/gweather.lzma
$ ls -lh /tmp/gweather.lzma
-rw-rw-r--. 1 seg seg 1.5M 2009-04-21 02:11 /tmp/gweather.lzma

73.5M, 98.1% compression! It's only 1.5mb of actual data! Are the
libgweather developers trying to win some kind of award for most bloat?

Someone needs to rethink their data structure. There is an immense
amount of duplicated data between languages. And an absurd amount of XML
overhead.
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