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Linux update reduced its own footprint (leminal.space)

submitted 1 week ago by Deconceptualist@leminal.space to c/linux@lemmy.world

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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 👍

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[–] far_university1990@reddthat.com 3 points 6 days ago

Linux make me excited for update again.

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 13 points 1 week ago

This makes me happy too.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 10 points 1 week ago

I'm sure it's happened under windows. But it's so opaque you'd never know.

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago

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...