Why would anyone install 2GB of "normal" software when same version of that software available in like 100mb elsewhere officially?

[Bastien Nocera]

On Wed, 2019-01-16 at 12:33 +0000, Allan Day wrote:
> James <purpleidea at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Can't we separate the two numbers in the ui to show eg:
> > 
> > ```
> > Base dependencies: 2GiB
> > App: 200MiB
> > Total: 2.2GiB
> > ```
> 
> Right! Or maybe you could have a simple string with an explainer in a
> popover:
> 
> ```
> Download size: 200 MB + 2 GB
> 
> +-------------^-------------+
> > Application size: 200 MB  |
> > Required runtime: 2 GB    |
> +---------------------------+
> ```

Users would probably to know want 2 things, how much data is it to
download, and how much space does it take on disk. I'm guessing the
answer won't be the same in both cases.

And silly aside: would users know that 1000 MB ~= 1GB?