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This looks fantastic, reminds me a lot of SpaceSniffer. The focus view or allowing for navigation through chunks is a nice essential inclusion. One desire might be quick actions. Doing size of squares based on the # of packages a dependency installation causes: Helps I guess users hellbent on having their install minimal figure out what they can afford to remove for as few packages on their system as reasonably possible.

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Thanks! I'll need to check out SpaceSniffer next time I'm on Windows.

Can you provide some examples of "quick actions"?

Currently, the visualization is purely based on file sizes in the directory structure. Package management adds some complications beyond the fact that there are at least a dozen popular managers in the wild. For one, package dependencies form a directed graph rather than a hierarchical tree, so credit assignment is vague. Two packages can depend on the same two dependencies. Do we give full credit to both, one or assign partial credit? Would we weight partial credit evenly or by dependent size or some external factor/

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