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<[email protected]>  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


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