You really have to filter this now, there's just so much bloat, it's a far cry from fitting it onto a CDROM :)

wasn't there recently a call to authors to delete old versions of their modules, or do I misremember ...

Cheers Rolf
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You remember correctly. However, some authors are unreachable and/or apathetic and the number of dists constantly increases as well.

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That's not the issue, minicpan, unless you're doing something weird, should only pull back the latest releases required to build distributions. Over the years people have uploaded many modules, and some very large in the App space (including vast bundles of other software). Unless you configure it to ignore bloat then you won't avoid this, and even then I've come across legitimate modules that have a dependency on ACME modules (for 'test' data).