STM32CubeF4 (this repo) vs CubeMX/IDE Downloads

[thestumbler]

Describe the set-up
Setup not applicable (I think), but it applies in my experiments using all of the following:

• MacOS (M1 Arm) Ventura 13.5, 16 GB RAM
• Windows 10 Pro 22H2, Intel i5-7260U, 8 GB RAM
• Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS, Intel i3-8109U, 8 GB RAM

Development boards for these families:

• STM32F4
• STM32H7

IDEs are latest version (Aug 2023):

• Stm32CubeMX: 6.9.1
• Stm32CubeIDE: 1.13.1

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Question
I pulled this repository (and its sister STM32H7 Cube MCU Package repository) to my PC. It is an easy way to get the necessary startup and HAL/LL files when building non-MX, non-IDE projects. However, if I want to also use STM32CubeMX or STM32CubeIDE for some project, it appears that I have to download all of this stuff again from within each respective tool. I see the option to point to a local source, but if I point to the location of this downloaded repository, it doesn't seem to recognize it.

Is that the intended operation, that CubeMX and CubeIDE aren't able to use these GitHub-downloaded MCU packages? If not, what am I missing to get that to work. I ask because this repository is about 1 GB (and the H7 one almost 2 GB). If the CubeMX and CubeIDE are indeed downloading the same thing, that's quite a bit of wasted, duplicated disk space being used.

-Chris