i.e. ~/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/. Mine on OSX is reading 4.78GB. Meteor v1.4.2.3.
Just checking! 
Yes, it’s “normal” in the sense that everyone who uses Meteor sees similar sizes
Every time you upgrade Meteor it keeps older versions of the code and packages in there, so it grows in size. And in that old version of Meteor is a whole separate mongod, etc. So you have to clean it out manually if it’s an issue.
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Gotcha—is there any known reason to avoid removing those old versions? Mine goes back to 1.0.35!
No. The only “problem” after cleaning out the directory is that it’ll download a number of packages again.
Hm, why would that happen? Just out of curiosity.
You’ll most likely remove a version which is needed somewhere - in which case the package in question is downloaded.
Ah, you mean an explicit dependency on a specific version of meteor-tool? I guess I hadn’t realized that was a thing
Yep the local folder can get bloated because of updates, however if you feel the need to do a cleanup you can just remove it (only the local folder) and rerun meteor. It’ll take a bit longer to download all the packages, but you won’t have any unnecessary bloat anymore.
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