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Date:      Mon, 20 Jun 2022 09:02:55 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        x11@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 264783] graphics/mesa-dri pulls in the entire llvm package
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Bug 264783: graphics/mesa-dri pulls in the entire llvm package
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D264783



--- Description ---
I was hunting through my system for disk wasters and I noticed that
llvm13--which I don't use--is installed, consuming some 1.4 gigabytes of sp=
ace.
 It gets pulled in because the mesa-dri package depends on it.	However, the
only thing mesa-dri seems to care about is libLLVM-13.so, a mere 94 megabyt=
es.

Because X requires mesa-dri, any system using X will have over a gigabyte of
space that is very likely entirely wasted.  Disk is cheap.  It is not *that*
cheap. (Especially since a scan of my other disk wasters suggests that mesa=
-dri
is not the only package that pulls in large packages but uses only small pa=
rts
of them.)

Unless mesa-dri really needs a significant fraction of llvm's functionality=
, it
would make a lot more sense to simply include the needed parts of llvm in
mesa-dri.



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