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Originally Posted by LoRd_MuldeR
Blindly bloating your machine by installing a zillion of Redistributables, in the hope that one of them will be the "right" one for application XYZ, is not a very good idea. Might do more harm than good. I think I'm having a "Coded Packs" Déjà vu  |
In general I agree with you but in case of the redists I think the all-in-one installers are a blessing, particularly for Avisynth users since plugin coders use a wide variety of VC versions.
I just did a test with the recent AIO installer which installs 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2015/17 for both x86 and x64. The installed 392 files occupy about 145 MiB. Compare that to a 10+ GiB Windows directory with 70,000+ files.
I'm a minimalist and I only install the stuff I need but these AIOs come in very handy when dealing with AVS plugs.