Trimming excess files in build (xenon)

I use the xenon + 7.0 build on a fire stick 4K max. There are a lot of things I don’t use (kids & games, for example). Space is limited on a fire stick and I assume getting rid of unused addons would both give me more memory and speed up general processes. I mainly use Seren, Venom, The Crew and The Oath for movies & tv, so I don’t want to uninstall anything they need, but the question is, which repos & other addons can I get rid of safely? Similarly, would turning off automatic update for stuff I don’t use speed things up significantly?

@Mac6

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If space is a concern I’d move kodi with all those builds and addons to a USB.

But for conversation sake, I’d use kodi with one or two addons.

The crew and seren are my favorite. That will help cut down on your space and cache.

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I’ve actually moved my copy of Kodi to a usb drive but my wife has an older fire stick that doesn’t support usb. Also, whenever either of us starts kodi and tries to do anything there’s a long delay (up to 5 minutes or more!) before the 1st or 2nd time we can do something like access search or play
a movie from favorites. I assume this is because things are updating in the background. It usually helps if I go to Firestick’s manage apps menu and delete the cache, bu sometimes I have to reboot the whole Firestick. One reason I don’t want to switch to just a few individual addons without a build is that I like things like using a search function that will give me choices from all the apps, since I often have to use more than one to find the right cached torrents.

@Mac6

In that case it may be more beneficial to upgrade to something that has more internal storage. Kodi is a resource hogg, the more you add to it the more it uses.

I understand why everyone wants to use builds with addons, but the side effect is the cost of ram and storage use.

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