Re: Experiment: poll on "switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?"

[MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop>]

Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>
> On 21-Dec-05, 16:11 (CST), MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> wrote: 
> > Current unstable Installed-Size:
> > vim-tiny ranges from 696 to 1852 with a median of 898k.
> > nvi ranges from 560 to 1040 with a median of 648k
> "Ranges"? Over what? Architectures?

Yes, architectures.

> > vim-tiny depends on the 200k-ish vim-common too, so nvi seems
> > about half the total size of a vim-tiny today.
> 
> Okay, so that's not "about the same". Stefano? If the above numbers are
> correct, then the best case is a (696+200-560)==336K increase. Last I
> heard, the CD builders considered that a non-trivial amount of space. Or
> am I confusing the boot image with base?

The increase is between 101% for ia64 and 58% for i386.
vim-tiny+vim-common is smallish by current standards, but
neither "about the same" as nvi, nor "only marginally larger".
Was there a maths error near the top of this thread?


Workings (rounded down, to be generous):

nvi         alpha      328.6     760
vim-tiny    alpha      471      1072
vim-common  alpha       79.9     232
   =total   alpha      550.9    1304
CHANGE      alpha      +67%      +71%

nvi         amd64      288.3     668
vim-tiny    amd64      433.1     900
vim-common  amd64       79.5     232
   =total   amd64      512.6    1132
CHANGE      amd64      +77%      +69%

nvi         arm        270.3     600
vim-tiny    arm        376.4     760
vim-common  arm         79.2     228
   =total   arm        455.6     988
CHANGE      arm        +68%      +64%

nvi         i386       281.4     632
vim-tiny    i386       368.4     776
vim-common  i386        78.8     228
   =total   i386       447.2    1004
CHANGE      i386       +58%      +58%

nvi         ia64       390.2    1040
vim-tiny    ia64       687      1852
vim-common  ia64        82       240
   =total   ia64       769      2092
CHANGE      ia64       +97%     +101%

nvi         m68k       255.6     560
vim-tiny    m68k       339.5     696
vim-common  m68k        78.3     228
   =total   m86k       417.8     924
CHANGE      m68k       +63%      +65%

nvi         mips       302.7     824
vim-tiny    mips       457.3    1200
vim-common  mips        79.2     232
   =total   mips       536.5    1432
CHANGE      mips       +77%      +73%

nvi         mipsel     302.4     824
vim-tiny    mipsel     457.5    1200
vim-common  mipsel      79.2     232
   =total   mipsel     536.7    1432
CHANGE      mipsel     +77%      +73%

nvi         powerpc    289.3     648
vim-tiny    powerpc    408.8     896
vim-common  powerpc     79.1     228
   =total   powerpc    487.9    1124
CHANGE      powerpc    +68%      +73%

nvi         sparc      272.6     628
vim-tiny    sparc      376.4     804
vim-common  sparc       78.9     228
   =total   sparc      455.3    1032
CHANGE      sparc      +67%      +64%

no vim-tiny for:
nvi         hppa       302.6     652
nvi         hurd-i386  281.4     632
nvi         s390       285.1     648

Hope that helps and please cc me on replies,
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