clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> 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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