Separate /usr partition

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 20:45:05 +0100,
  Vaclav Mocek <little.owl at email.cz> wrote:
> On 04/14/2011 07:31 PM, JD wrote:
> > Vaclav Mocek wrote:
> >>> It reminds me, that few months back I observed that Fedora's binaries in
> >>> /bin are much bigger that Slackware's binaries (tens of %), both +- the
> >>> same version. Now, I am wondering why, if it is dynamically linked.
> >>>
> >>> Vaclav M.
> > Could the difference be in the compiler version and
> > in the compilations flags used to build the binaries?
> >
> >
> Probably flags, the compiler was the same. The differences were for an 
> example 22k versus 27k and  when I check it again (F14/Slackware13.1), 
> the differences are minimal.

prelink will also make a difference.