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I'm sure things like DosBox might be a bit dicey though because it is open source and there are probably loads of custom versions floating around in Steam products.
The runtimes don't cause me any issues space-wise but it is a bit annoying when most of the size of a Steam product is redistributable packages.
also realistically this 'problem' is mostly going away since dx and vc are no longer separate downloads in windows 10
In addition, Steam is still compatible with Windows XP through 8.1 and the MSVC14 libraries are still separate installations for those operating systems.
If I were to get my program greenlit, it would be the difference between my depot being a few hundred KB or over 6 MB.
You really shoudlnt concern yourself with how big your redists are. I mean your'e talking about a few MB worth of stuff. In an age where my cell phone has 16GB of storage.
We're not in some era where, like back in my day, I literally chewed a guys ear off over the phone because they were going to replace my in warranty 120MB hard drive with a 110MB one, and THAT WAS NOT ACCEPTABLE!
I'm guessing the depot feature mentioned earlier would be the slight improvement.
It has become somewhat more relevant with SSD's and their limited capacity.
Even SSDs are now coming down in price. And the space taken up by the duplication of games is minimal compared to the games themselves.