Incompatible idioms: relative imports, top-level program file

[Gregory Ewing]

Rustom Mody wrote:
> Wanted to try out sympy.
> apt-install promised ¼ GB download, ¾ GB space usage
> 
> Just getting a src-tarball was: 6M download, 30M after opening the tar.

Have you actually tried compiling and using that
tarball, though?

Sympy hooks into a lot of other libraries that
are themselves quite large. Apt-get was probably
planning to download and install all of them,
hence the large download size.

If you tried to install from source, you would
likely have to install all those dependencies
yourself, or configure it to skip the ones you
don't want if it allows that.

-- 
Greg