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clipka <ano### [at] anonymous org> wrote:
> It's not like Linux wouldn't been growing over time, too, if you install
> new software occasionally. For instance, when installing an image
> processing software package, it may pull in some image library packages
> in addition. I don't think Linux package managers will automatically
> un-install those if you uninstall that image processing package (it
> would be ill-advised, as I might have installed other,
> non-package-managed software that also relies on that library).
Note that I didn't even mention DLLs in my original post. Everything
that makes the Windows partition grow over time is stuff which is *not*
related to system libraries. (Of course the DLLs also make the system
larger, but that's another story in itself.)
There's little of that in Linux.
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- Warp
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