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I have been using Void for months on the desktop, and I like it very much, especially the package manager, but something that REALLY annoys me is how bloated ev

I have been using Void for months on the desktop, and I like it very much, especially the package manager, but something that REALLY annoys me is how bloated every package seems to be. Maybe you only want to use Writer from Libreoffice, but you have to install absolutely EVERYTHING, many gigabytes including Java stuff that only 0.01% will ever need, and this is true for most packages, QEMU is another horror example. In Alpine Linux almost every package is split into multiple small sub packages so you can install only the stuff you need. This is great.

kungtotte 8y ago
That's a Libreoffice issue, not Void. You'll see the same thing on any Arch-based distro too for example, and I'd venture to guess that most distros are the same since there's little incentive for them to rip apart upstream packages and repackage them.
- efiecho 8y ago
  Alpine has a separate Writer package, Debian has a separate Writer package and probably many more distros. Same thing with QEMU, a separate package for every architecture, separate GUI packages etc. I like so many things about Void, but the package bloat is just crazy.