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[Jeremy Lavergne]

When MS Office singlehandedly uses up all the drive on those tiny drives, I cannot feel sorry that there's no room left for MacPorts--because there's already no room left for anything before MacPorts even enters the picture.

On January 19, 2015 9:49:43 PM EST, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at macports.org> wrote:
>At 8:20 PM +0000 1/19/15, Chris Jones wrote:
>>  > On 19 Jan 2015, at 7:13 pm, Craig Treleaven 
>><ctreleaven at macports.org> wrote:
>>  > At 3:11 PM +0000 1/19/15, Chris Jones wrote:
>>>>  ...
>>>
>>>  Does anyone else find it bizarre that, in 2015, we've got such an 
>>>active thread about saving a few gigs of space?
>>
>>Nope. Saving disk space when not required is always a good idea.
>
>If I buy a sub-compact car, I can hardly complain that my skiis won't 
>fit inside.  I truly understand cost constraints and tradeoffs. 
>However, if a compressed archive of MacPorts-installed packages is 
>the tipping point for your system...I'd say you're running far too 
>close to the edge.
>
>>  > If one has a too-small SSD, it seems more-than-a-little strange 
>>to complain that building/installing a bunch of software packages 
>>consumes it.  Get a bigger drive.  Or smaller expectations.
>>
>>And how pray does one do that in a Mac Book with non-upgradable 
>>Solid state storage...
>
>Upgrade:
>
>http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC
>
>Or the time-honoured fashion in the Apple world...trade up.
>
>Craig
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