Disk Space Usage when Grabbing LTS 7.16

[Koushik Roy]

Hey,

I normally do local development on tools on a FreeBSD box, but wanted to deploy something I wrote onto a Linux (Ubuntu) server (weird huh? tends to go the other way). I was using a newer LTS than the one I had on the Linux machine, so I decided to nuke my .stack directory and reinstall. When stack started grabbing LTS 7.16, it had to grab GHC, but I repeatedly ran out of space. At one point I had 3.6 GB of space open and that _still_ wasn't enough to build the GHC version in LTS 7.16. I finally found some nooks and crannies on my Linux box to free space from and managed to grab the full LTS 7.16, but is there any way to mitigate this? It would be fantastic if basic LTS builds were available through torrent so I wouldn't have to free up ~ 5 GB of space every time I need to bump my version of GHC.

Thanks,

Koushik