They seem to be too big for what devs claim to be a ‘minor patch’ and yet too small to suggest a complete reinstallation of the app. Is there some technical reason behind it? I would like to request an ELI5 for this.

  • @wildbus8979
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    710 months ago

    That’s fairly easy to do for interpreted languages, but it’s a lot more problematic for compiled apps that are distributed as a machine code binary.