# 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.



## Init systems

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| systemd     | 722K      |
| OpenRC      | 21K       |
| s6          | 20K       |
| runit       | 12K       |
| sysVinit    | 9K        |

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

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| rsyslog     | 157K      |
| socklog     | 5.6K      |
| metalog     | 2.5K      |

## Network
Generic network management programs.

|       Name      |    loc    |
| --------------- | --------- |
| wpa_supplicant  | 555K      |
| kea             | 486K      |
| NetworkManager  | 429K      |
| ModemManager    | 194K      |
| connman         | 103K      |
| (e)iwd          | 86K       |
| dhcpcd          | 41K       |

## Music players

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| mpd         | 102K      |
| cmus        | 42K       |
| moc(p)      | 35K       |
| ncmpcpp     | 25K       |
| herrie      | 7.4K      |

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

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| vim         | 931K      |
| neovim      | 771K      |
| vis         | 109K      |
| kakoune     | 31K       |
| micro       | 29K       |
| nano        | 17K       |

## Build systems

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| cmake       | 854K      |
| tup         | 271K      |
| meson       | 107K      |
| GNU make    | 34K       |
| ninja       | 20K       |
| samurai     | 3.7K      |

## Shells (POSIX or not)

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| bash        | 210K      |
| fish        | 165K      |
| zsh         | 119K      |
| ksh93       | 72K       |
| tcsh        | 65K       |
| mksh        | 30K       |
| ash         | 21K       |
| dash        | 13K       |

## Boot loaders/managers

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| CloverBoot  | 1.8M      |
| GRUB        | 331K      |
| syslinux    | 254K      |
| eEFInd      | 75K       |
| LILO        | 36K       |

## 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    | 144K      |
| OpenSSH     | 123K      |
| TinySSH     | 14K       |

## Terminal multiplexers

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| tmux        | 132K      |
| GNU screen  | 36K       |
| dvtm        | 4.0K      |

## Terminal emulators 

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| kitty       | 114K      |
| alacritty   | 26K       |
| wayst       | 24K       |
| havoc       | 10K       |
| wterm       | 10K       |
| st          | 4.4K      |

## Kernels

|     Name     |    loc    |
| ------------ | --------- |
| netbsd       | 40M       |
| linux        | 21M       |
| FreeBSD      | 18M       |
| OpenBSD      | 17M       |
| DragonflyBSD | 934K      |

## Permission managers

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| sudo        | 195K      |
| polkit      | 26K       |
| OpenDoas    | 2.9K      |
| PAM         | 61K       |

## Compilers

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| gcc         | 9.0M      |
| llvm        | 8.0M      |
| zig         | 2.1M      |
| rust        | 856K      |
| tcc         | 93K       |

## Torrent clients

|      Name     |    loc    |
| ------------- | --------- |
| qBittorrent   | 762K      |
| transmission  | 329K      |
| deluge        | 137K      |
| rtorrent      | 24K       |

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

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| chromium    |           |
| Firefox     | 27M       |
| badwolf     | 1.8K      |

## Window managers

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| awesome     | 83K       |
| i3          | 58K       |
| openbox     | 42K       |
| bspwm       | 12K       |
| 2bwm        | 3.3K      |
| dwm         | 2.5K      |

## Wayland compositors

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

## Application launchers

|      Name     |    loc    |
| ------------- | --------- |
| rofi          | 84K       |
| bemenu        | 6.6K      |
| wofi          | 4.3K      |
| nwg-launchers | 3.5K      |
| dmenu         | 1.3K      |

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

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| eudev       | 28K       |
| mdevd       | 2.3K      |
| smdev       | 771       |
| mdev        | 751       |

## Initramfs generators

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| dracut      | 32K       |
| tinyramfs   | 1.0K      |

## Code counters

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| scc         | 19K       |
| tokei       | 11K       |

## Package managers

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| apt         | 100K      |
| xbps        | 43K       |
| pacman      | 37K       |
| apk         | 17K       |
| kiss        | 1.1K      |

## Webservers

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| apache      | 419K      |
| nginx       | 142K      |
| lighttpd    | 75K       |

## Syncronization and backup programs

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| borg        | 236K      |
| syncthing   | 153K      |
| rsync       | 56K       |
| restic      | 49K       |
| casync      | 33K       |

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

|     Name    |    loc    |
| ----------- | --------- |
| openssl     | 894K      |
| bluez       | 395K      |
| libressl    | 384K      |
| elogind     | 145K      |
| dbus        | 126K      |
| tint2       | 37K       |
| lowdown     | 19K       |
| pass        | 3.5K      |

[1]: https://github.com/boyter/scc