[mcbits]

The falling cost of storage is at least partly the reason hosting a few thousand packages takes up hundreds of TB. "Storage is practically free" from the perspective of each of those projects. By the time .5 PB is a trivial cost, they'll need 50 PB.

[est31]

Yeah NixOS has done some technical choices to require tons of data downloads, even if there is little modification of the content of the packages. Regularly my computer has 10 Gb worth of downloads because some high level package got upgraded and even if it's dynamically linked, the lower level packages still get re-downloaded from cache.nixos.org. It doesn't matter because storage is free right?

[not_your_vase]

Yeah, that too.