This is just a simple little happy post 🙂 I know the situation isn't super special or unusual.
I just ran an Endeavour OS + AUR update (eos-update --aur) and it had a net size of -7.38 MB. i.e., out of 138 packages, enough of them reduced their footprint to make the net change negative.
So I got a bit of SSD space back! It's not the first time either. I don't think I saw that once in 25ish years of running Windows or macOS. Maybe a video driver package would shrink on occasion, but never a major system update.
So yeah, just a lil' shoutout to all the maintainers out there optimizing your apps and services. You're great 👍
4 Comments
luthis@lemmy.nz · 13 pts · 13d
This makes me happy too.
Eldritch@piefed.world · 10 pts · 13d
I'm sure it's happened under windows. But it's so opaque you'd never know.
Cyber@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 13d
Yeah, it's nice when that happens
I use plain Arch not Endeavour, but with the AUR I presume you should also check now and again whether old dependency packages can also be removed with
pacman -Qtd... you might be able to find even more space 😉Advanced: if you know what you're doing, you can try:
sudo pacman -Rnsc $(pacman -Qqtd)Don't say I didn't warn you if it breaks something...
far_university1990@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 12d
Linux make me excited for update again.