[PATCH] Update the estimate of the size of installing everything

Jon TURNEY jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Fri May 22 13:38:00 GMT 2015


On 22/05/2015 00:44, David Stacey wrote:
> On 21/05/2015 17:44, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>> Update the estimate of the size of installing everything from
>> "hundreds of
>> megabytes" to "tens of gigabytes", just in case someone should think
>> it's a
>> good idea with contemporary hard disk sizes:)
>
> Slightly off topic, but I can give you some real numbers if you're
> interested: x86_64 is the larger of the two installs, weighing in at
> 44.45 GB with just over 750,000 files - and growing all the time.
> Obviously, that's not installed on an SSD...

Thanks. But being precise here just means it will get out of date faster :)

On reflection, I think I'd prefer just to delete that sentence.  Nearly 
always, installing everything is not a good idea, so mentioning the 
possibility before mentioning you should install what you need doesn't 
really help.



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