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Why are the installed Xcodes so huge? #10
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Using $ du -shc Xcode*
3.9G Xcode-6.2.app This is consistent with the size inside the DMG: Volumes boris$ du -sch Xcode/
3.9G Xcode/ Still begs the question why it is bigger than the App Store download. |
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OK, the rest of the difference in sizes seems to be attributable to differences in stripped symbols:
Don't really want to strip those symbols manually, so I guess a 📡 is in order. |
Filed: http://www.openradar.me/20512651 There's nothing that can be done apart from that right now. |
$ du -shc Xcode* 5.9G Xcode-6.2.app 5.9G Xcode-6.3.app
but App Store versions are ~2.5GB - I guess using
cp -R
is the correct way to copy stuff over and symlinks, etc. are retained by it. Maybe hard links or something else thatcp
destroys?The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: