[vbox-dev] Size of Oracle packages for Debian

[Martin Simmons]

>>>>> On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:32:46 +0300, Alexey Eromenko said:
> 
> From here:
> http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.14/
> 
> for Debian: (5/6/7)
>   virtualbox-4.1_4.1.14-77440~Debian~lenny_amd64.deb
> 26-Apr-2012 01:59    65M
>   virtualbox-4.1_4.1.14-77440~Debian~squeeze_amd64.deb
> 26-Apr-2012 01:59    67M
>   virtualbox-4.1_4.1.14-77440~Debian~wheezy_amd64.deb
> 26-Apr-2012 01:59    67M
> for openSUSE:
>   VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.14_77440_openSUSE114-1.x86_64.rpm
> 26-Apr-2012 02:00    57M
> for RHEL:
>   VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.14_77440_rhel5-1.x86_64.rpm
> 26-Apr-2012 02:00    75M
>   VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.14_77440_rhel6-1.x86_64.rpm
> 26-Apr-2012 02:00    62M
> 
> What's the reason, that packages for Debian 6.0 and 7.0 take 10 MB
> more space than RHEL 6 or openSUSE 11.4 ?
> Debian 6.0 and 7.0 have pretty much all the dependencies required,
> including the big one, libQt4-v4.6.3 (in Debian 6.0).

The size of the package file is not an accurate guide for the size of the
contents because compression can vary.

__Martin