This is more of a joke post.
Weechat is incredible, terminal based IRC client, that I wanted to install recently on my FreeBSD instance.
It’s lightweight.
Here is log from my pkg install weechat
:
[user@server]# pkg install weechat
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
The following 18 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
New packages to be INSTALLED:
aspell: 0.60.8_1,1
glib: 2.72.2,2
gmp: 6.2.1
gnutls: 3.7.6
libedit: 3.1.20210910,1
libiconv: 1.16
liblz4: 1.9.3,1
libtasn1: 4.18.0
libunwind: 20211201_1
lua52: 5.2.4
nettle: 3.8
p11-kit: 0.24.1_1
pcre: 8.45_1
perl5: 5.32.1_1
ruby: 3.0.4_2,1
tcl86: 8.6.12
weechat: 3.5_2
zstd: 1.5.2
Number of packages to be installed: 18
The process will require 219 MiB more space.
40 MiB to be downloaded.
Proceed with this action? [y/N]:
219 MiB - isn’t it funny? I think it is.
Slack *.dmg
file for MacOS takes 168 MiB.