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Redundant patches/installations and cleaning up the AppData folder
I need to clone a repo (from GitHub) and compile a programming project on my Windows 10 x-64 machine every now and again. There're dozens of stages (downloading, extracting and patching) done until the project's compilation finishes. They're like:
Downloading 7zip...
https://www.7-zip.org/a/7z2301-extra.7z->C:\Users\ME/Desktop/projectZ\vcpkg\downloads\7z2301-extra.7z
Downloading https://www.7-zip.org/a/7z2301-extra.7z
Extracting 7zip...
Restored 0 package(s) from C:\Users\ME\AppData\Local\vcpkg\archives in 36.2 ms. Use --debug to see more details.
Installing 1/76 boost-uninstall:x64-windows-static...
Building boost-uninstall:x64-windows-static...
Downloading https://github.com/boostorg/unordere...-1.83.0.tar.gz -> boostorg-unordered-boost-1.83.0.tar.gz...
Extracting source C:/Users/ME/Desktop/projectZ/vcpkg/downloads/boostorg-unordered-boost-1.83.0.tar.gz
Applying patch 0001-unordered-fix-copy-assign.patch
It's odd that those patchings are done sometimes and they take a few GBs of my C:\ drive while the project's folder (projectZ) is about 1.2 GB totally.
1) Where are those patch files stored because deleting projectZ doesn't clean up my C:\ drive (now in red)?
2) Why are sometimes those patches installed when I clone the repo again?
3) The AppData folder is about 30 GBs containing folders and files not required anymore. Can I delete the folder totally? It will save that amount of disk space for my system.