Devs,
With the advent of the new version scheme for libreoffice, there is a
dramatic increase in the frequency of package updates lately, sometimes a new
version is packaged daily or every other day, e.g.
[2024-08-26T19:24:24-0500] [ALPM] upgraded libreoffice-still (24.2.5-1 ->
24.2.5-2)
[2024-09-02T23:01:03-0500] [ALPM] upgraded libreoffice-still (24.2.5-2 ->
24.2.5-3)
[2024-09-07T01:54:56-0500] [ALPM] upgraded libreoffice-still (24.2.5-3 ->
24.2.6-1)
[2024-09-09T16:53:22-0500] [ALPM] upgraded libreoffice-still (24.2.6-1 ->
24.2.6-2)
[2024-09-10T18:48:31-0500] [ALPM] upgraded libreoffice-still (24.2.6-2 ->
24.2.6-3)
Granted with gcc changes, etc.. many rebuilds may be needed as those
changes are incorporated, and it may just be temporary, but libreoffice is a
150M+ package. I can imagine that adds up from a bandwidth standpoint for Arch
and it's mirrors.
Is the libreoffice new package frequency just a temporary thing, or is this
here to stay?
More a curiosity than anything else. I can look back nearly a decade in the
pacman.log and it wasn't uncommon to have months when there was no libreoffice
update, and rarely 3 or more a month.
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
