[arch-general] Packages getting smaller?

[Muhammed Uluyol]

It looks like they are being compressed with upx.

Muhammed Uluyol


On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Victor Silva <vfbsilva at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >>>
> >>>
> >
>