Reduce disk size taken up by rust standard library docs
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Description
Problem you are trying to solve
I have a macbook with only 256GB SSD as I am not willing to pay the insane upgrade prices of apple
Thus, 700MB here and there do add up and I want to reduce the disk space taken up by software so I can store more photos etc.
Solution you'd like
The docs installed by rustup are quite large - maybe there is a way to minify the HTML etc. or generate the docs on demand (when opening) from a file format that doesn't use a lot of characters for markup
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Research direction
The issue does not name any files, tests, or entry points. Start by tracing how rustup installs and packages the Rust standard library documentation, then compare possible storage reductions with documentation access requirements. Done would mean an agreed, measurable way to reduce installed documentation size without breaking its use.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100