Arch Linux

I just upgraded this package and noticed the following change from the old version to the new version:

-Installed Size : 8.22 MiB
+Installed Size : 315.29 MiB

community/riot-desktop 1.5.6-1 1.5.8-1 307.07 MiB 61.60 MiB

This is a shocking increase. The notable difference in https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/riot&id=b784c3e2523110a48825909789904590b4d86caf is adding matrix-seshat and rust makedepends.

Investigating the installed package with du -sh:

303M /usr/lib/riot/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/matrix-seshat/native/

297M /usr/lib/riot/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/matrix-seshat/native/target
5.8M /usr/lib/riot/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/matrix-seshat/native/index.node
92K /usr/lib/riot/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/matrix-seshat/native/Cargo.lock
44K /usr/lib/riot/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/matrix-seshat/native/src
4.0K /usr/lib/riot/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/matrix-seshat/native/Cargo.toml
4.0K /usr/lib/riot/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/matrix-seshat/native/build.rs
4.0K /usr/lib/riot/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/matrix-seshat/native/artifacts.json

I'm pretty sure the only file in native/ which is needed is the index.node compiled extension itself. Minus the pointless cruft (Cargo.toml, source *.rs files) we also have this taking up huge amounts of room:

270M /usr/lib/riot/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/matrix-seshat/native/target/release/deps
19M /usr/lib/riot/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/matrix-seshat/native/target/release/build
5.8M /usr/lib/riot/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/matrix-seshat/native/target/release/libseshat_node.so
4.0K /usr/lib/riot/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/matrix-seshat/native/target/release/libseshat_node.d


deps/ contains tons of .rlib and .rmeta files, build/ is obviously temporary build state, and libseshat_node.so is an extra copy of ../../index.node (the files are byte-identical).