Quote Originally Posted by CommonTater View Post
When you're writing a program that comes in at 100K without the bloat... an MB is a big deal.
You fail to see the point. 1 MB is nothing. Whether your executable is 100 KB or not. It is acceptable.

Actually it is a very convincing argument.
A fair point. However, this is a 3rd party library problem.
However, it is also entirely possible to write libraries which do not force you to shut down all your applications to install or update. Mostly update.
And it's likely not going to matter when you install Qt, or some other small GUI library.