The Webmin package size has increased significantly in recent versions, from around 12 MB in 1.330 to 17 MB in 1.340 to 26 MB in 1.342 (development release). I noticed the following entry in the development change log:
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Removed huge un-necessary plugins and styles for Xinha.
However, after removing these plugins, the size increased (not decreased) by almost 10 MB! Is there something else huge and un-necessary in there that can be removed?
Due to this increase, the Webmin RPM will no longer install on two of my older (low-memory) systems. One of them actually fails with the following error:
# rpm -Uvh webmin-1.342-1.noarch.rpm
Preparing... memory alloc (4 bytes) returned NULL.
The other one just hangs on "Preparing" and consumes all available system resources (mainly swap) until eventually being killed.