[pacman-dev] some more delta stats

Xavier shiningxc at gmail.com
Fri Mar 6 06:37:36 EST 2009


On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> Am Freitag 06 März 2009 09:24:17 schrieb Xavier:
>> The ghostscript one is unbelievable : 5,7K vs 29M !
>
> Thats because I only changed a dep and just repackaged it (instead of
> recompiling)
>

Ah that's interesting to know :) So probably this makes the result a
bit wrong, without this package the ratio would be 12/44 instead of
12/73, but that's still nice.
And this means that a minor repackaging change can be made to a big
package without causing a big download for every user.


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