Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EGO_SUM

[Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 3:33 PM Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I performed a tree-wide analysis regarding EGO_SUM and IIRC published
> the results in my previous post about EGO_SUM last year.
> https://dev.gentoo.org/~flow/ego_sum-2022-01-01.txt shows the analysis
> results for ::gentoo as of 2022-01-01 (I've recently updated the file to
> contain the Manifest-size too).
>
> Minikube (#833478) and k3s (#833477) appear there, too, with
> package-directory sizes over one MiB. However, those packages are under
> the top five of packages using EGO_SUM by package-directory size.
>
> They do not represent the average Go package.
>
> The mean size of a Manifest of a package using EGO_SUM was 186 KiB, and
> the median was even lower at 84 KiB. Only a tiny percentage of packages,
> below 5%, had a Manifest-size above one MiB.

It sounds like you've identified a compelling rationale for a Manifest
size limit.