The conda-analytics deb pkg is currently ~1GB.
Unpacked it occupies ~4GB.
Without the pkgs dir ~2GB.
The pkgs dir doubles the footprint but allows statboxes and launchers to clone the conda environment without touching the internet.
Those sizes are a problem because:
- they occupy disk space on the cluster
- they take bandwidth at each new version install from apt.wm.org.
Currently we have only 1 deb pkg, with pkgs dir included. And a postinst could be activated by a debconf variable to rm the pkgs dir, typically on workers.
we could create 2 deb pkgs:
- 1 with the pkgs dir
- 1 without
If we keep 1 deb pkg, some improvements could be made around the debconf variable, by reading the input true/false properly. And a change in the variable to false should trigger a re-install (to get pkgs).