[nix-dev] Boost libraries

[Lluís Batlle]

2009/4/7 Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to>:
> Hi Eelco,
>
>  > I really don't want all those variants back in the default build,
>  > because it's crazy to have a simple support library take up a quarter
>  > of a gigabyte.
>
> well, I see what you mean. 258 MB is a lot of disk space for something
> that you don't need, but I happen to need those libraries pretty much
> every day in pretty much every program I write, so when I hear that the
> installed package requires 258 MB, I just shrug. That disk space costs
> less than 1 Euro.
People not updating often, may end up with more than one version of
boost installed, so the use of disk space can be beyond the 258 MB.