Solved Huge file size of proj-8.2.1,1

[drr]

While upgrading packages today, I noticed that the updated graphics/proj package 'proj-8.2.1,1' now has a flat file size of 2.07GiB! The previous version of the package used to be around 450MB. Is this huge increase in file size expected?

Here are the details of the package from pkg info proj:

proj-8.2.1,1
Name           : proj
Version        : 8.2.1,1
Installed on   : Sun Jan  9 11:23:07 2022 +04
Origin         : graphics/proj
Architecture   : FreeBSD:13:amd64
Prefix         : /usr/local
Categories     : geography graphics
Licenses       : MIT
Maintainer     : [EMAIL]lbartoletti@FreeBSD.org[/EMAIL]
WWW            : [URL]https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ[/URL]
Comment        : Cartographic Projections library
Options        :
        DATA           : on
Shared Libs required:
        libcurl.so.4
        libsqlite3.so.0
        libtiff.so.5
Shared Libs provided:
        libproj.so.22
Annotations    :
        FreeBSD_version: 1300139
        repo_type      : binary
        repository     : FreeBSD
Flat size      : 2.07GiB
Description    :
Cartographic Projections library that performs projections to and from
various cartographic coordinate systems.

WWW: https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ

 

[SirDice]

DATA is now on by default:

===> The following configuration options are available for proj-8.2.1,1:
     DATA=on: Install data files
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings

ports - FreeBSD ports tree

cgit.freebsd.org

 

[drr]

SirDice, thanks for the explanation. I am marking this thread as solved.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

 

[bsduck]

Already corrected by the maintainer: https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=595b35fa1f9f993f8176a5c91baa943999f742cc

Today's pkg upgrade removed that unwanted data from my system.

 

[drr]

Already corrected by the maintainer: https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=595b35fa1f9f993f8176a5c91baa943999f742cc

Today's pkg upgrade removed that unwanted data from my system.

After today's upgrade to 'proj-8.2.1_1,1', the flat size has now reduced to 1.52GiB on my laptop.

Version 'proj-7.2.1,1' on my workstation (on 'quarterly' branch) has a flat size of 489MiB.

 

[bsduck]

True. I don't know much about proj but I doubt the 1.5GiB data in /usr/local/share/proj/ are required for all of its usecases. I can't really tell more because I only have it installed as a dependency of dependencies of graphics/nomacs, and I never used any feature of it involving cartographic projection.