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Re: about the size of koffice-doc binary deb



On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 14:43 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > I recently noted that koffice-doc's deb is close to 100MB large
> > (>600MB when unpacked), yet the source package deb, koffice, is about
> > 60MB large, but builds this binary package and a number of others,
> > including Krita, Kword. Kchart, ...
> >
> > How does this happen?
> 
> Anyone out there, perhaps?

Have you extracted the packages and checked what actually takes up all
that space? An uneducated guess is that it builds documentation in lots
of different formats (pdf, html etc.) taking up space?

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