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 <ctrelea...@macports.org> wrote: >At 8:20 PM +0000 1/19/15, Chris Jones wrote: >> > On 19 Jan 2015, at 7:13 pm, Craig Treleaven >><ctrelea...@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 >_______________________________________________ >macports-users mailing list >macports-users@lists.macosforge.org >https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
