[bobbyskelton41]

Only case I could reasonably see an argument for is on low-end systems, but Helix isn't targeting that anyway.

[yonatan8070]

Even for low-end system, 100MB isn't much.

For my Arch system I have a 60GB (BTRFS, compressed) root partition, and I install packages very liberally, I have KDE Plasma, KiCAD (with the 3D library), FreeCAD (though I don't use it) and quite a few other packages and haven't run out of space yet (currently I'm using 79GB uncompressed, 55GB on-disk)