Reduce disk size taken up by rust standard library docs

[spotlesscoder]

Problem you are trying to solve

I have a macbook with only 256GB SSD as I am not willing to pay the insane upgrade prices of apple

Thus, 700MB here and there do add up and I want to reduce the disk space taken up by software so I can store more photos etc.

Solution you'd like

The docs installed by rustup are quite large - maybe there is a way to minify the HTML etc. or generate the docs on demand (when opening) from a file format that doesn't use a lot of characters for markup

Notes

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[weihanglo]

Try the minimal profile when installing. And only add necessary component when needed.

[rami3l]

I'd like to add that you can use the online docs as they are actually equivalent to the ones you're downloading with Rustup.

[ChrisDenton]

If it's already installed then simply do this to remove the docs:

rustup component remove rust-docs