[OpenIndiana-discuss] pkg folder size escalated

[Goetz T. Fischer]

On Thu, 18 May 2023 11:59:52 +0300, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> those numbers are meaningless without checking what is inside of those files.

sure, but only to some extend. it's both ips. unless of course illumos did a massive rewrite there and 
just kept the name for historical reasons. and the options and the messages and the package format and 
... you get the idea :-)

> illumos (openindiana) is not solaris. The systems are different and we are not intending 
> to be free clone of Solaris.

i know what illumos is and where it came from and i didn't imply it had to be the same either. my 
question was about the size of the pkg folder and that i think it's too big. which then turned out to be 
right considering the solution with flush-content-cache-on-success and its result. the latter should be 
True by default if i may suggest that.
as for the size, i think even the original solaris pkg folder is too big for that number of packages. 
looking at rhel for example i see 65mb for 485 packages. of course that depends on what packages they 
are but it does give a rough estimate.