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Genuine question: why does storage size on disk matter, especially when we're talking about ~100MB? I can understand complaining about RAM usage because there
by shepherdjerred 3y ago
Genuine question: why does storage size on disk matter, especially when we're talking about ~100MB?
I can understand complaining about RAM usage because there is some performance impact there, but I have truly no clue why anyone cares about storage usage.
Other than the initial download time, I don't see how it would have any impact on the end-user.
Of course, it would be _nice_ to get that package size down if it's easy, but to me it seems unnecessary to prioritize.
- bobbyskelton41 3y agoOnly case I could reasonably see an argument for is on low-end systems, but Helix isn't targeting that anyway.
- yonatan8070 3y agoEven for low-end system, 100MB isn't much. For my Arch system I have a 60GB (BTRFS, compressed) root partition, and I install packages very liberally, I have KDE Plasma, KiCAD (with the 3D library), FreeCAD (though I don't use it) and quite a few other packages and haven't run out of space yet (currently I'm using 79GB uncompressed, 55GB on-disk)