Title: Size in loc of common software
Author: Alessandro Mauri

# Size in loc of common software
Bloat is everywhere, in 2018 I started my journey on debloating my digital
life, so far I mostly use linux as my main OS (the mostly is due to uni
stuff I don't want and/or have time to deal with), I don't use a desktop environment,
got rid of systemd, pulseaudio and polkit just to name a few. I could go on
about how I debloated most of my computing life but that is not the goal
of this article, that is I recently started to wonder: how much bloat is really
there?

In order to answer that question I rolled up my sleeves and with the mighty
power of post-its, git and [scc][1] I cloned the repositories of many
common programs in order to check their bloat suckless style, with
lines of code. Let's get to the data.

**UPDATE**: I changed the method for counting lines of code, that is I changed
utility from [scc][1] to [cloc][2]. The reason behind this is that [cloc][2]
allows to exclude a list of languages from the code count, that way I can count
only the lines that matter excluding stuff like documentation and so on.
So entries marked with *"x"* mean that they were re-counted using the following
command (that's a big command):

```sh
$ cloc --exclude-lang='make,m4,YAML,SVG,CMake,DTD,Markdown,CSS,\
Meson,diff,Dockerfile,NAnt script,HTML,TeX,PO File,reStructuredText,\
vim script,AsciiDoc'
```

## Init systems

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| systemd     | 566K      | x
| OpenRC      | 14K       | x
| s6          | 10K       | x
| runit       | 6.2K      | x
| sysVinit    | 8.7K      | x

## Logging daemons
Technically systemd includes its own logging daemon but here is omitted.

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| rsyslog     | 152K      | x
| socklog     | 3.7K      | x
| metalog     | 1.9K      | x

## Network
Generic network management programs.

|       Name      |    loc    |
| --------------- | --------- |
| wpa_supplicant  | 529K      | x
| kea             | 454K      | x
| NetworkManager  | 413K      | x
| ModemManager    | 192K      | x
| connman         | 98K       | x
| iwd             | 85K       | x
| dhcpcd          | 38K       | x

## Music players

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| mpd         | 93K       | x
| cmus        | 40K       | x
| mocp        | 35K       | x
| ncmpcpp     | 23K       | x
| herrie      | 7.1K      | x

## Cron daemons

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| fcron       | 12K       | x
| cronie      | 7.5K      | x
| dcron       | 2.1K      | x
| scron       | 1.0K      | x
| tinycron    | 117       | x

## Text editors
Don't tell me you saw that one coming.

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| vim         | 667K      | x
| neovim      | 550K      | x
| vis         | 32K       | x
| kakoune     | 30K       | x
| micro       | 27K       | x
| nano        | 16K       | x

## Build systems

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| cmake       | 774K      | x
| tup         | 243K      | x
| meson       | 68K       | x
| GNU make    | 31K       | x
| ninja       | 18K       | x
| samurai     | 3.3K      | x

## Shells (POSIX or not)

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| bash        | 161K      | x
| fish        | 157K      | x
| zsh         | 115K      | x
| ksh93       | 72K       | x
| tcsh        | 65K       | x
| mksh        | 30K       | x
| ash         | 12K       | x
| dash        | 13K       | x

## Boot loaders/managers

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| CloverBoot  | 1.7M      | x
| GRUB        | 281K      | x
| syslinux    | 222K      | x
| reEFInd     | 27K       | x
| LILO        | 24K       | x

## Display servers
Dependencies are counted two levels "deep" excluding duplicates, from 
the alpine linux x86_64 package repositories.\
U: Not built, protocol code not generated
B: Code generated

|         Name        |       loc       | dependencies |
| ------------------- | --------------- | ------------ |
| xorg-server         | 422K            | 44           |
| -                   | -               | -            |    
| wayland +           |                 |              |
| wayland-protocols + |                 |              |
| wlroots             | U: 97K, B:268K  | 27           |

## SSH servers/clients

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| dropbear    | 101K      | x
| OpenSSH     | 123K      | x
| TinySSH     | 13K       | x

## Terminal multiplexers

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| tmux        | 57K       | x
| GNU screen  | 32K       | x
| dvtm        | 4.1K      | x

## Terminal emulators 

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| kitty       | 174K      | x
| alacritty   | 18K       | x
| wayst       | 31K       | x
| havoc       | 10K       | x
| wterm       | 10K       | x
| st          | 4.3K      | x

## Kernels

|     Name     |    loc    |
| ------------ | --------- |
| netbsd       | 32M       | x
| linux        | 19M       | x
| FreeBSD      | 16M       | x
| OpenBSD      | 15M       | x
| DragonflyBSD | 887K      | x

## Permission managers

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| sudo        | 140K      | x
| polkit      | 22K       | x
| OpenDoas    | 2.8K      | x
| PAM         | 60K       | x

## Compilers

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| gcc         | 9.0M      |
| llvm        | 8.0M      |
| zig         | 2.1M      |
| rust        | 801K      | x
| tcc         | 93K       |

## Torrent clients

|      Name     |    loc    |
| ------------- | --------- |
| qBittorrent   | 743K      | x
| transmission  | 282K      | x
| deluge        | 118K      | x
| rtorrent      | 22K       | x

## Web browsers
Does not include libraries, only the main repos.

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| chromium    | too large |
| Firefox     | 19M       | x
| SeaMonkey   | 17M       | x
| Webkit      | 12M       | x
| qutebrowser | 92K       | x
| min         | 20K       | x
| vimb        | 9.4K      | x
| Lynx        | 177K      | x
| links       | 166K      | x
| dillo       | 66K       | x
| badwolf     | 1.8K      |

## Window managers

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| awesome     | 65K       | x
| i3          | 44K       | x
| openbox     | 40K       | x
| bspwm       | 12K       | x
| 2bwm        | 3.3K      |
| dwm         | 2.5K      |

## Audio systems

### ALSA

|     Name      |    loc    |
| ------------- | --------- |
| alsa-firmware | 133K      | x
| alsa-lib      | 93K       | x
| alsa-tools    | 43K       | x
| alsa-utils    | 36K       | x
| alsa-plugins  | 12K       | x
| alsa-oss      | 4.0K      | x

## Wayland compositors

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| weston      | 117K      |
| sway        | 42K       |
| wayfire     | 27K       |
| hikari      | 15K       |
| river       | 5.9K      |

## Application launchers

|      Name     |    loc    |
| ------------- | --------- |
| rofi          | 20K       | x
| bemenu        | 5.3K      | x 
| wofi          | 3.6K      | x
| nwg-launchers | 2.2K      | x
| dmenu         | 1.2K      | x

## Device managers
NOTE: mdev is only one source file, so loc count doesn't
include anything but that file.

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| eudev       | 27K       | x
| mdevd       | 1.6K      | x
| smdev       | 697       | x
| mdev        | 751       |

## Initramfs generators

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| dracut      | 28K       | x
| tinyramfs   | 448       | x

## Code counters

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| scc         | 41K       | x
| tokei       | 5.7K      | x

## Package managers

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| apt         | 98K       | x
| xbps        | 40K       | x
| pacman      | 28K       | x
| apk         | 17K       | x
| kiss        | 1.0K      | x

## Webservers

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| apache      | 419K      |
| nginx       | 144K      | x
| hiawatha    | 105K      | x
| lighttpd    | 70K       | x
| caddy       | 27K       | x

## Syncronization and backup programs

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| borg        | 86K       | x
| syncthing   | 129K      | x
| git-annex   | 77K       | x
| rsync       | 51K       | x
| restic      | 43K       | x
| casync      | 31K       | x

## Others
Stuff that doesn't fit any other category (for now)

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| openssl     | 642K      | x
| bluez       | 373K      | x
| libressl    | 374K      | x
| elogind     | 137K      | x
| dbus        | 115K      | x
| tint2       | 33K       | x
| lowdown     | 15K       | x
| pass        | 2.8K      | x

[1]: https://github.com/boyter/scc
[2]: https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc