Hi all, there is a new set of openssl packages in testing that are split into openssl, openssl-doc and openssl-perl. See https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/54887 As most users just need the library the perl dependency can be dropped. Summing up: Before: openssl: depends on Perl; size: 3.6 MiB (7.31 MiB) After: openssl: depends just on glibc; size: 1.78 MiB (5.49 MiB) openssl-perl: depends on Perl openssl-doc: size: 1.82 MiB We actually talked about this at ArchConf last year. Splitting the package was the easy part, but dropping the Perl dependency means that any package up the tree that depends on openssl needs to be checked if it actually needs Perl itself. Thanks to everybody who did the hard work here! PS: Do you think we should post a news item about this change? Most people won't need to worry about this, but those few who need the perl scripts need to install the separate package. Greetings, Pierre