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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 But being precise here just means it will get out of date faster :)On reflection, I think I'd prefer just to delete that sentence.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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