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@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