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How did the Wine package manage to shave off half its size? (lemmy.one)

submitted 5 months ago by Markaos@lemmy.one to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

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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

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[–] Markaos@lemmy.one 4 points 5 months ago

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