Oops, of course I forgot to actually add the cc.  Done now.

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Alex Ghitza <aghi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear John,
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 8:41 PM, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> After building Sage the amount of filespace used is (as we all know)
>> rather large.  I was just checking a 4.7 install, which is not used
>> for any development pusposes, and is on a machine which I use but do
>> not own, and where I was just told that the filespace was getting
>> short, and found that the SAGE_ROOT was taking up 15GB of which 5.5GB
>> is in devel and 8.4GB in local.  Moreover, in devel I find:
>
> For the last year or so I have been using the prebuilt version of Sage
> that comes packaged in Arch Linux.  Somehow the maintainer of this
> version (Thomas Dziedzic) manages to create a fully functional
> self-contained Sage distribution that takes about 1.9GB for Sage 4.7.
>  I'm ccing Thomas in case he has some words of wisdom to offer (and I
> take the opportunity to thank him for updating the package so quickly
> after each new Sage release).
>
>
> Best,
> Alex

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Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne
-- http://aghitza.org

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