[arch-general] Packages getting smaller?

[Victor Silva]

My guess is they are shipping less embedded libs.

Em 14 de abril de 2012 14:02, Brendan Long <self at brendanlong.com> escreveu:

> It's just strange that it's happening so consistently, like again today:
>
> Targets (7): dbus-1.4.20-1  dbus-core-1.4.20-2  dbus-python-1.0.0-1
>             mkinitcpio-0.8.7-2  qt-4.8.1-2  xorg-server-1.12.1-1
>             xorg-server-common-1.12.1-1
>
> Total Download Size:    21.59 MiB
> Total Installed Size:   96.40 MiB
> Net Upgrade Size:       -0.93 MiB
>
>
> On 04/13/2012 08:38 PM, Zachary (Asian) wrote:
>
>> My guess is that they switched from adding features to removing bloat,
>> which results in a smaller filesize.
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Brendan Long<self at brendanlong.com>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've noticed recently that a lot of upgrades have been making the total
>>> installed size go down. Has something changed in the packaging, like
>>> compressed binaries or a new version of GCC or something? I'm just
>>> curious.
>>>
>>> Brendan
>>>
>>>
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