> 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. not any more Targets (33): acpid-2.0.16-1 avr-binutils-2.22-3 avr-gcc-4.7.0-1 avr-libc-1.8.0-3 chromium-18.0.1025.162-1 consolekit-0.4.6-2 flashplugin-11.2.202.233-1 iso-codes-3.34-1 libdbusmenu-qt-0.9.2-1 libgphoto2-2.4.14-1 libmysqlclient-5.5.23-1 libthai-0.1.17-1 libvirt-0.9.11-2 linux-3.3.2-1 llvm-3.0-3 mkinitcpio-0.8.7-2 mysql-5.5.23-1 mysql-clients-5.5.23-1 nbd-3.0-2 nginx-1.0.15-1 nss-3.13.4-1 openbsd-netcat-1.105-2 openjpeg-1.5.0-1 qt-4.8.1-2 sbcl-1.0.56-1 vim-nerdtree-4.2.0-3 wine-1.5.2-1 xf86-input-synaptics-1.5.99.903-1 xf86-video-intel-2.18.0-3 xorg-server-1.12.1-1 xorg-server-common-1.12.1-1 xorg-server-xephyr-1.12.1-1 xorg-xinput-1.5.99.901-1 Total Download Size: 164,54 MiB Total Installed Size: 796,28 MiB Net Upgrade Size: 64,02 MiB -- дамјан