On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 09:47:02AM +0100, Tomas wrote:
> Binary size of udev is 50 KB, but source size is >2MB.
> Is this necessary?

It's due to the udev tarball including a whole whack of external stuff.
I believe that Greg is doing this because many of these programs and
libraries are very young, so compatibility changes from version to
version.

The tarball is currently carrying around libsysfs and klibc.  The bulk
of the extra space is klibc.

mh

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