Weechat

Weechat is a lightweight IRC client

This is more of a joke post.

Weechat is lightweight

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.