From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 91025 invoked by alias); 30 Jul 2015 07:03:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 91014 invoked by uid 89); 30 Jul 2015 07:03:54 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-wi0-f177.google.com Received: from mail-wi0-f177.google.com (HELO mail-wi0-f177.google.com) (209.85.212.177) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 07:03:52 +0000 Received: by wicmv11 with SMTP id mv11so8640849wic.0 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 00:03:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.180.87.199 with SMTP id ba7mr3360640wib.81.1438239829190; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 00:03:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.21.188.214] ([149.6.156.42]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id gc4sm28203591wib.23.2015.07.30.00.03.47 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 30 Jul 2015 00:03:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: What generates colossal 1.4G /usr/share/icons To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <9D9AC45310887B40A7245734E850FBE1257785F9@FS-MX02.frontier.local> <20150730064440.5726280.8974.578@bonhard.uklinux.net> From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: <55B9CC4D.2040602@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 07:03:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150730064440.5726280.8974.578@bonhard.uklinux.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-07/txt/msg00453.txt.bz2 On 7/30/2015 8:44 AM, Fergus wrote: > >>> What is it that generates the **absolutely massive** /usr/share/icons/? >>> I've had a hunt through "requires:" in setup.ini but got lost. > >> $ du -sh /usr/share/icons >> 114M /usr/share/icons > >> These icon directories have a _lot_ of symlinks, did you perhaps copy your >> installation and flatten them? > > Thank you. > $ du -sh /usr/share/icons/ > 1.5G /usr/share/icons/ > I did not intentionally flatten them, but I must have: 1.5G >> 114M. > Unflattening is presumably not possible (how would it be driven?) so: I had better re-install and hope that multiple symlinks are recovered. ‎ > Can you say what original package installation might have induced this directory? > Fergus > These commands will give you a hint. On my system 2 packages only have more the 5000 files $ zgrep -c "usr/share/icons/" /etc/setup/*.gz |grep -v ":0$" /etc/setup/adwaita-icon-theme.lst.gz:5135 /etc/setup/fontforge.lst.gz:20 /etc/setup/gcr.lst.gz:42 /etc/setup/gnome-icon-theme.lst.gz:5967 /etc/setup/hicolor-icon-theme.lst.gz:3 /etc/setup/lyx.lst.gz:8 /etc/setup/mintty.lst.gz:20 /etc/setup/octave.lst.gz:32 /etc/setup/singular.lst.gz:2 /etc/setup/TeXmacs.lst.gz:8 /etc/setup/xcursor-themes.lst.gz:159 /etc/setup/xinit.lst.gz:11 $ du -hs /usr/share/icons/* 25M /usr/share/icons/Adwaita 80M /usr/share/icons/gnome 157K /usr/share/icons/handhelds 332K /usr/share/icons/hicolor 1.6M /usr/share/icons/redglass 8.0K /usr/share/icons/Singular.png 2.2M /usr/share/icons/whiteglass -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple