the installed package size is almost 500mb

[CouldBeThis]

I was just looking in my file system and I noticed that this package takes up almost 500mb. It's the biggest package on my system, even bigger than linux itself.

Here is a list of the directories with their sizes listed in Mb:

$ du -a -m -c --max-depth=1 /usr/share/icons |sort -n | grep Bibata
69	/usr/share/icons/Bibata-Original-Amber
71	/usr/share/icons/Bibata-Modern-Amber
73	/usr/share/icons/Bibata-Modern-Classic
73	/usr/share/icons/Bibata-Modern-Ice
74	/usr/share/icons/Bibata-Original-Classic
74	/usr/share/icons/Bibata-Original-Ice

Here is the situation in one of them, which is representative of the rest. Only files >1mb included:

$ du -a -m -c -t 1m /usr/share/icons/Bibata-Original-Ice
33	/usr/share/icons/Bibata-Original-Ice/cursors/left_ptr_watch
33	/usr/share/icons/Bibata-Original-Ice/cursors/wait

I don't know how to find any useful information for you about this. Here is what I could find about the package:

$ apt-cache policy bibata-cursor-theme
bibata-cursor-theme:
  Installed: 2.0.3-4
  Candidate: 2.0.3-4
  Version table:
 *** 2.0.3-4 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I also tried uninstalling and reinstalling in case something quirky happened but everything came back the same way.

I am using the machine headless at the moment so I am not even sure if the theme works. I installed it a while ago but never enabled it.

I copied a few of the files to my local machine and am able to open them in GIMP. It opens and appears to be what I'd expect. The Properties dialogue reports size as 96x96px, resolution as 72x72 ppi, filetype x11 mouse cursor. The only thing that stands out is "number of pixels" is 9216 and "number of layers" is 2400. In the Layers dialogue there are indeed zillions of layers as it has ever step of the animation and every size.

Anyway not sure what is going on here just thought I'd let you know in case something unexpected is happening with package creation. If it's unavoidable maybe breaking it into a smaller packages makes sense.