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slurgfest on July 27, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Go is boring

Installing xmonad requires several hundred megs of dependencies, so what does it mean for it to be light? Low memory footprint?

antihero on July 27, 2012 [–]

Pretty much. Hard disk space is still cheaper than RAM, so I think it's a good tradeoff. Plus those dependencies can be used for lots of other things.

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