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The overwhelming bulk of users are going to install a binary package, not build from source.

LLVM 9.0 with Clang, a huge array of tools, etc, is 1.9GB on macOS.



The point of open source is that individuals from the community can read and modify their tools. Anything that makes that harder is a bad thing, it might be justified but it’s still bad.




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