From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 101374 invoked by alias); 22 May 2015 13:38:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-patches-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Archive: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-patches-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 101352 invoked by uid 89); 22 May 2015 13:38:40 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: out5-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out5-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.29) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 22 May 2015 13:38:37 +0000 Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.internal [10.202.2.45]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E11A2082B for ; Fri, 22 May 2015 09:38:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 22 May 2015 09:38:35 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (unknown [31.51.206.76]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id A9C82680130 for ; Fri, 22 May 2015 09:38:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <555F3157.1040808@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 13:38:00 -0000 From: Jon TURNEY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin Patches Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update the estimate of the size of installing everything References: <1432226663-19744-1-git-send-email-jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> <555E6DCB.5080005@tiscali.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <555E6DCB.5080005@tiscali.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2015-q2/txt/msg00042.txt.bz2 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.