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pantalaimon • yesterday at 6:50 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I just upgraded my Ubuntu to the new version with Rust written Coreutils - this is insane

    % size /usr/bin/ls
       text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
    10086795  731540    2104 10820439  a51b57 /usr/bin/ls

    % ls -sh /usr/lib/cargo/bin/coreutils/ls
    11M /usr/lib/cargo/bin/coreutils/ls

    % du -sh /usr/bin
    1.5G /usr/bin

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gpm • yesterday at 7:22 PM

The entire rust coreutils package, as installed, is 12 MB https://packages.ubuntu.com/questing/rust-coreutils Which is nearly double the gnu coreutils package but still a complete nothing burger: https://packages.ubuntu.com/questing/gnu-coreutils

I think what's happening here is that they've all been compiled into one binary, and then that one binary hardlinked to a variety of names like /usr/bin/ls. Since they all show as having the same inode and the same size.

The other 1.5G of your 1.5G /usr/bin is unrelated to rust coreutils.

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