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I had a fun time with this once. The Jetbrains Toolbox app is written using Qt and is 150mb. I opend the .app package on mac, deleted the frameworks directory, and symlinked it to my system's Qt install.

It's now 6mb.




And it will break at random due to API or ABI incompatibility. Have fun gluing the pieces back together.


They seem to build it against a reasonable version of Qt, I haven't updated it in a while (because it's just a launcher), and when I do I'll just re-symlink against whatever Qt is currently installed (which I do keep updated)

I understand your argument, but in this particular case things aren't volatile enough that it causes any problems, and if it does it's just as easy to solve.




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