From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 07:02:03 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:   
      
   > Heh, pacman tells me the total installed size of the update I am doing   
   > now is over 4 Gb. Net upgrade size is 56 MiB. 260 packages to be   
   > updated. Includes updating locales, rebuilding the initramfs image,   
   > restarting services, and other paperwork, all reported in the console   
   > window..   
      
   All I got today was dnsmasq at .47 MiB.  Fedora, otoh, is 1 GB, including   
   the .5 kernel and a lot of plasma packages. Odd, since both are KDE.   
      
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