Re: Why doesn't Apple's Installer let me choose architecture?
Re: Why doesn't Apple's Installer let me choose architecture?
- Subject: Re: Why doesn't Apple's Installer let me choose architecture?
- From: Laurence Harris <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 02:18:32 -0500
On Dec 13, 2006, at 11:43 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote:
On Aug 10, 2006, at 18:49 , Robert Nicholson wrote:
If there was a place to decide what architectures you want to
install then Installer.app would be it. So why given the
increasing popularity of laptops with small drives doesn't apple
incorporate the ability to choose installation architectures for
any package in their Installer app?
This has come up before on this and other lists. One prevalent
opinion is that, for a given app, the actual executable code (the
stuff that is architecture-dependent) is typically a small chunk of
the total size, so going to the effort of pruning the code doesn't
seem worth it. It should be pretty simple to check with a shell
script that looks for binaries and checks their size (with 'size',
not 'ls').
As I've said before, I think localization resources I don't user are
a bigger issue. They use over 2 GB on my disk. I have no feel for the
amount of space UBs might be wasting.
Also, my laptop sports a 100-GB drive, which seems to be up to the
task of holding a bunch of fat binaries without getting squeezed.
My daughter called me last week. She and her boyfriend were trying to
burn a 20-minute DVD for a school project on his MacBook that has an
80 Gig drive in it, but iDVD was telling them there wasn't enough
space on the disk. Turns out he only had about one GB of hard disk
space available. So I guided my daughter through the process of
deleting non-English language resources from Pages (each of
its .lproj folders uses about 100 MB of disk space) and that was
enough to let them burn the disk.
Some people are really buying into Apple's appeal to embrace the
digital life. In this case his home folder had 55 GB of stuff in it,
almost entirely composed of music, pictures, and movies. Go
figure. ;-) Obviously he needs to clean out some stuff on his disk,
but the point is that ordinary people really do run out of disk
space, even with the hard drives Apple is shipping in current models.
Larry
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