[BUG] source tarball is huge

[John Spencer <maillist-nmap () barfooze de>]

nmap-6.01.tar.bz2: 22MB

that's about 30 times bigger than the PCC C compiler

20 MB of the unpacked data are apparently "os x and win build envs"

the tarball has copies of libpcre, libpcap and dozens of other packages 
in it, which is usually considered "A Bad Idea (TM)"

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Why_not_bundle_dependencies

please provide a tarball that does not contain "os x and win build 
envs", and no embedded libraries.
if libpcre is needed, check for it in configure and throw an error if 
not found.
same for libpcap et al.

maybe you can make a "everything included" source tarball and a "sources 
only" one ?

Regards, J.S.


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