The current package build each utilities as separate binaries, resulting in over 110MB of binaries. Overall the package weighs 160MB. Reproducible: Always Expected Results: A direct `cargo build --release --features unix` results in a single 13MB binary (once stripped). The other binaries should be hardlinks of that single binary.
The `cargo install` method is probably too barebones for the ebuild, but it turns out we can get the desired behavior using ` make MULTICALL=y PROG_PREFIX=uu- install`. It'd also be nice to only install the shell completions if the corresponding USE flag is set, but I didn't find a clean way to specify that with the makefile method.
Shell completions are usually installed unconditionally. You can use INSTALL_MASK to drop those.
[WW] SIZE: 128.45MiB -> 16.73MiB, 401 -> 405 files [WW] ------> FILES(+105,-101) SIZE(-86.98%) Whew!
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=61c929f551d2bc755d47047d3d2d1191d9ad96f7 commit 61c929f551d2bc755d47047d3d2d1191d9ad96f7 Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2023-02-22 17:51:23 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-02-22 17:51:23 +0000 sys-apps/uutils-coreutils: install multicall binary & use hardlinks This saves a huge amount of disk by having one binary where everything is hardlinked to it: ``` [WW] SIZE: 128.45MiB -> 16.73MiB, 401 -> 405 files [WW] ------> FILES(+105,-101) SIZE(-86.98%) ``` Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/836820 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> ...reutils-0.0.17.ebuild => uutils-coreutils-0.0.17-r1.ebuild} | 8 +++++++- sys-apps/uutils-coreutils/uutils-coreutils-9999.ebuild | 10 ++++++++-- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
