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Linux update reduced its own footprint (leminal.space)
submitted 6 days ago by to c/linux@lemmy.world
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This is just a simple little happy post ๐Ÿ™‚ 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 ๐Ÿ‘

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[โ€“] 5 points 6 days 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 ๐Ÿ˜‰

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...

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