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Re:Chimera Linux by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Sunday December 17, 2023 @06:19AM (#38672092)
On Void, installing clang results in a massive 120MB libLLVM-15.so along with a number of other hefty shared libaries. 50+ MB, 30+ MB and so on.

As such, I have stuck with GCC which requires much less space.

Is this any different on Chimera.

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Re:Chimera Linux by gavinray on Sunday December 17, 2023 @10:06AM (#38673311)
Do people really have such a violent reaction to using ~100MB of disk space for one of the most advanced compilers in the world?

I have 2TB of internal SSD storage on my laptop, and I can buy extra TB's for $50 each.

Why on earth would I balk at 100MB?

Some webpages serve half of that in optimized images for crying out loud, lol.

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Re:Chimera Linux by fransje26 on Monday December 18, 2023 @05:44AM (#38681029)
To get a bit of perspective, these peoples should be invited to briefly switch to windows, and to try installing the MSVC compiler...
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