Re: What generates colossal 1.4G /usr/share/icons

Re: What generates colossal 1.4G /usr/share/icons

[Fergus]

>> 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

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Re: What generates colossal 1.4G /usr/share/icons

[Marco Atzeri]

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


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Fw: What generates colossal 1.4G /usr/share/icons

[Fergus]

> $ 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. 
> Can you say what original package installation might have induced this directory?

Found it. The package
xinit
which I've always requested at any new installation as being fundamental to any X activity e.g. TeX or xpdf now induces adwaita-icon-theme and gnome-icon-theme which provide the bulk of files under /usr/share/icons/. 
Q1.  Why are these deemed so essential?
Re installing xinit, I still have 1.4 G under /usr/share/icons/ of which 630M under Adwaita/ and 738M under gnome/. 
Have you installed xinit? 
Q2. If you have, what trick do I need to pull to reduce the size of these 2 subdirectories? 
If you have not, that explains your small usage. 
Thank you!
Fergus


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Re: Fw: What generates colossal 1.4G /usr/share/icons

[Achim Gratz]

Fergus <fergus <at> bonhard.uklinux.net> writes:
> Re installing xinit, I still have 1.4 G under /usr/share/icons/ of which
630M under Adwaita/ and 738M under gnome/. 
> Have you installed xinit? 

Yes.  Also, you need to reinstall the icon theme packages if anything, not
xinit.

Regards,
Achim.