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For a while the ever-increasing size of this package has been a real
annoyance to me. It's a direct consequence of upstream's static-linking
policy: common code and fonts are embedded into each individual binary.
Ideally they would be built into a shared library which individual
binaries would link against. However that's not trivial to achieve in
our modest PKGBUILD. So in the meantime I tried to keep the package size
under control with two slightly controversial tweaks:
- static libraries are no longer provided
- CJK fonts are no longer embedded
I believe this keeps this package fit for nearly everyone's purpose and
it brings its size down from 176 MB to 44 MB. Feel free to voice any
concerns you might have, together with suggestions on alternative ways
to keep this package manageable. Cheers.
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