> Please forgive me if this has been noted on misc@, as I've overlooked > it, but, just out of curiosity, can anyone account for the recent > doubling in size of base61.tgz in recent amd64 snapshots of -current? > > As recently as 7 June, it was ~58 MB in size, but over the last couple > of days at least, it has ballooned to nearly 120 MB in size. None of the > other tarballs seem to have changed much at all.
KARL creates a new /usr/share/compile.tgz file, which is expanded to /usr/share/compile/GENERIC.MP directory at first boot that is the new space, a link kit The .o's are compiled with -ggdb, and that may shrink in the future if someone provides glue to shrink-down the .o files
