Chonker

• Arch Linux Pacman Optimizer: Your Arch Linux is too fat, lets make it lightweight...
• 1 File, 0 Dependency, 99Kb, no config, no setup, 15 lines of code, wont run scripts, does NOT overwrite any config.

Use

$ chonker

• Reply n or y. Output is only 1 INI file.

Install

$ nimble install chonker

Download

• https://github.com/juancarlospaco/nim-chonker/releases Just download and run.

Compile

$ git clone https://github.com/juancarlospaco/nim-chonker.git
$ cd nim-chonker/src/
$ nim c chonker.nim

• Force writing /etc/pacman.d/chonker.conf with -d:overwrite. Your Arch should have /etc/pacman.d/ or create it.

Uninstall

• If you want to undo the changes, delete /etc/pacman.d/chonker.conf and force an upgrade with pacman.

Why

People nowadays checks documentation online, so theres no point on shipping it with the packages, some packages even have images, photos, PDFs, CSS and JS frameworks for HTML documentations, but Docker image file size and SSD free space on VPS or Cloud is always a cool feature, I got approx half the size on the Docker Arch image with this trick. YAGNI.

Requisites

• Arch Linux, know how to use pacman. For Docker apply the config before image build. Dont need Nim after compile.

Contribute without Coding

The core is 1 JSON file, so you can contribute or customize it without even knowing Nim nor programming.

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