On Fri, 2024-03-15 at 10:06 +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I was messing with some storage related caching on some of our hosts 
> this morning when I wondered about how much storage the gentoo mirrors 
> were consuming.  I'm not too worried about the current storage, but I am 
> noticing that the storage requirements are creeping quite a bit (as per 
> attached), and if that growth rate continues it may become a problem 
> *eventually*.
> 
> Can this growth be explained?
> 

I guess the simplest explanation is that software is growing larger,
and in the end we should be expecting to adding new packages faster than
removing dead ones.  Add to that the grotesque inefficiency of modern
programming languages such as Go and Rust.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny