>> Note: I don't actually believe a 30MB static binary is a problem in this day and age
> Depends what that 30MB does, or how much of it is actually needed [....]
Moreover, let's consider a CLI tool suite. Dozen little tools, each doing
perfectly what it was designed to (think of coreutils, util-linux, sysstat,
binutils, or iproute2). Such a suite suddenly weighs 300MB, more than X.Org or
PostgreSQL (or the two combined). Does it really do more than any of these two
to justify the size? I doubt it.
> Depends what that 30MB does, or how much of it is actually needed [....]
Moreover, let's consider a CLI tool suite. Dozen little tools, each doing perfectly what it was designed to (think of coreutils, util-linux, sysstat, binutils, or iproute2). Such a suite suddenly weighs 300MB, more than X.Org or PostgreSQL (or the two combined). Does it really do more than any of these two to justify the size? I doubt it.