Why does the Qt Installer download unselected archives?

[MatusGuy]

Why does the Qt Installer download unselected archives, just to then delete them?

I select Qt 6.4.0, then remove things like WebAssembly, Qt Quick, WebEngine, etc., and it still downloads them. Before extracting, it deletes the unselected archives. There's got to be a reasonable explanation, right?

[jsulm]

@MatusGuy This is a question for Qt developers who actually develop the installer (you can ask them on their Qt developers mailing list, or file a bug in Qt Bug Tracker). Here we are in a user forum.

[kkoehne]

That being set, I think it's very unlikely that the installer downloads things just to delete them. What happens sometimes is that things you didn't explicitly select are installed due to dependencies ...

Anyhow, if you're sure this is the behavior you are seeing, please file a bug report: https://bugreports.qt.io/ . Include the installation log (InstallationLog.txt).