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4067	ChimeraX distribution is too big, over 1 Gbyte uncompressed	Tom Goddard	Tom Goddard	"We need to look into trimming ChimeraX bloat.  It is absolutely enormous with compressed size 300-400 Mbytes and uncompressed 1.15 Gbytes on macOS.  I never saw such a large application.  The large download size over slower network connections, slow install, and slow startup are all reasons to take a closer look at the size and start trimming it down.

I think without PySide2 the macOS distribution uncompressed was still 600 Mbytes, so this can't all be blamed on massive Qt libraries.  Another clue, site-packages/chimerax is 50 Mbytes in ChimeraX 1.1.1 on Mac.  So it looks like a lot of prereq packages are causing the huge size."	enhancement	assigned	moderate		Core				Eric Pettersen Greg Couch				all	ChimeraX