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.

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    1 year ago

    This will completely depend on how and what is being distributed.

    For example, I used to work on an app where assets (3D models, images, etc) were appropriately diff’d during updates but the binaries were not.