It looks like they are being compressed with upx. Muhammed Uluyol On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Victor Silva <vfbsilva@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My guess is they are shipping less embedded libs. > > Em 14 de abril de 2012 14:02, Brendan Long <self@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> 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 > >>> > >>> > > >
