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Re:App sizes are out of control by boondaburrah on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @08:53PM (#14906946)
I had a fun time with this once. The Jetbrains Toolbox app is written using Qt and is 150mb. I opend the .app package on mac, deleted the frameworks directory, and symlinked it to my system's Qt install.

It's now 6mb.

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Re:App sizes are out of control by AstralStorm on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @03:14AM (#14908551)
And it will break at random due to API or ABI incompatibility. Have fun gluing the pieces back together.
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Re:App sizes are out of control by boondaburrah on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @06:03PM (#14974140)
They seem to build it against a reasonable version of Qt, I haven't updated it in a while (because it's just a launcher), and when I do I'll just re-symlink against whatever Qt is currently installed (which I do keep updated)

I understand your argument, but in this particular case things aren't volatile enough that it causes any problems, and if it does it's just as easy to solve.

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