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You forgot the /s right? Most of the world doesn't have that kind of connection.

Yes, some of us have faster internet. (Assuming freilanzer talked about megabits, not megabytes.)

I don't see how this is a huge problem. You don't need to download the executable once per minute.

Exactly, and loading stuff into memory is free, everyone has an SSD, and RAM and L1 cache are exactly as fast as each other \s.

But on a more serious note, I actually do care because I have around 4,500 packages installed on my system. If all of those were 100MB in size I'd have a problem.

Searching *.exe in Everyting and select all -> 12 779 objects.

With 50MB a piece that would be ~0.5TB. That is 50% of my system SSD.