[QGIS-Developer] Reducing the size of our download packages

[Greg Troxel]

Alexander Bruy via QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>
writes:

> If I'm not wrong, our standalone installer is based on the OSGeo4W and
> installs the latter. So users can easily
> use the OSGeo4W installer to download any additional dependencies they
> want/need.

perhaps the windows installer.

The real problem here is that this 'installer' thing is properly the job
of packaging systems, and qgis has gone down the path of packaging, only
partway.