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Re: HOW BIG IS IT?
- To: Mark Paulus <mark dot paulus at wcom dot com>,Earnie Boyd <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: HOW BIG IS IT?
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 13:34:55 -0500
- References: <3A927D34.C5D4F095@yahoo.com>
At 12:54 PM 2/20/2001, Mark Paulus wrote:
>Just realize, the size of the package isn't the whole picture.
>You also need the space for the download, the space for the unpacking,
>the space for the /usr components (man, bin, lib, etc), and the space
>for the "latest" snapshot. I downloaded what I considered
>a base system (didn't include gcc,m4, or any dev stuff except
>make) to a samba disk I have at home. That took 300 MB or so.
>But I tried installing the components I wanted onto a local disk,
>and that totally consumed a 900MB disk with it's temp files, and
>everything else. Couldn't even get it installed, until I went to
>a partition with 2+ GB free.
You don't have to download the snapshots. And you only need to take
"contrib" if there's something you want in there. Still, I downloaded
"latest" and its 330MB for me ("contrib" is 43 MB).
"Is there something wrong with free software that makes it so big?", he asks
jokingly.
>(Would be nice if setup would allow one to specify whether to keep
>packages as they are exploded, where to keep temp files, etc, etc)
I doubt you'll get an argument from folks on this list in that regard.
Anyone want to patch setup to do this?
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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