Crystax NDK size is larger than Android Studio + SDK + (regular) NDK + ... combined

[ghost]

The extracted Crystax NDK size is larger than Android Studio + SDK + (regular) NDK + Emulator + SDK Tools combined. I literally can't use it right now because it doesn't seem to fit into the docker container on my system partition. Since it's not required for Python 2 either, isn't there a way you can get rid of this excessive requirement for Python 3 apps?

[inclement]

We have a general goal of getting a python3 build process working without Crystax, but there is not particular ETA for this.

You can probably safely delete sources/boost and sources/cxx-stl to save almost 4GB, and maybe some other things there as well, if it helps.

[ghost]

No that doesn't help, because you can't do that before extracting it. Extracting it needs more than 15GB of disk space! (extracted size is 8GB, but tar xf needs considerably more during the process)

[AndreMiras]

Yes @Jonast you can do that before extracting using the --exclude parameter of tar command, just like we do it in the Dockerfile:
https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android/blob/9bef536/Dockerfile#L60