How did the Wine package manage to shave off half its size?
How did the Wine package manage to shave off half its size?
Not complaining, just wondering - I was upgrading my system and noticed that the net upgrade size is -748 MB, with just a few important-looking packages set to be upgraded. So I checked and it's wine - going from 1338 MB (9.9-1) to just 587 MB (9.9-2).
I checked the commits to the package repo, and as far as I can tell, this is the only change between 9.9-1 and 9.9-2 - it removes a bunch of hardening flags and that's it. I know these often come at the price of increasing the final build size, but more than double?
For context, the Arch-wide flags are defined here, if I understand it correctly
If you look at the sizes, it used to be that small and something happened with 9.0 that made it twice as big: https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/w/wine/
That version also happens to mess with compilation flags.
Also 8.21 which got big because of https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/wine/-/commit/5e370541ce2aaf2b99afd41a9e4d1fe4e163d1da
Compiler flags and not stripping debug symbols again.
It's probably debug symbols and may be a regression unless they've been moved to debuginfod.
Ah, thank you, I didn't realize there is a package archive I could check for size history
You should still have the previous package in your cache right? If so, extract that and the current package, and then compare the two folders to see what's changed -
meldis a good tool for that.I'm satisfied with the explanation from the other answer, but thanks, this is a good idea and I hope I'll remember it the next time I want to quickly compare package versions