diff --git a/containers/jug/dev.Dockerfile b/containers/jug/dev.Dockerfile
index 63f6023b9303e079474c8cf086c863e8a953ffcf..17cf1f64a068292d3d6c7c2a75b90d646782c577 100644
--- a/containers/jug/dev.Dockerfile
+++ b/containers/jug/dev.Dockerfile
@@ -179,11 +179,14 @@ WORKDIR /
 ## ========================================================================================
 FROM builder as staging
 
+# Garbage collect in environment
 RUN cd /opt/spack-environment && spack env activate . && spack gc -y
+
 # Strip all the binaries
 # This reduces the image by factor of x2, so worth the effort
 # note that we do not strip python libraries as it can cause issues in some cases
-RUN find -L /usr/local/*                                                \
+RUN du -sh /opt/software/linux-*/gcc-*/* | sort -h                      \
+ && find -L /opt/software/*                                             \
          -type d -name site-packages -prune -false                      \
          -o                                                             \
          -type d -name lib-dynload -prune -false                        \
@@ -193,7 +196,8 @@ RUN find -L /usr/local/*                                                \
       | xargs file -i                                                   \
       | grep 'charset=binary'                                           \
       | grep 'x-executable\|x-sharedlib'                                \
-      | awk -F: '{print $1}' | xargs strip -s
+      | awk -F: '{print $1}' | xargs strip -s                           \
+ && du -sh /opt/software/linux-*/gcc-*/* | sort -h
 
 ## Bugfix to address issues loading the Qt5 libraries on Linux kernels prior to 3.15
 ## See
diff --git a/spack.yaml b/spack.yaml
index 28202bc29fa24346b40ab19bb380376b6c6105f3..d542a792d5ed43499613375520865baacd7ce7e4 100644
--- a/spack.yaml
+++ b/spack.yaml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ spack:
     - nlohmann-json@3.10.5
     - opencascade@7.6.0
     - pkg-config@0.29.2
-    - podio@0.15 build_type=RelWithDebInfo
+    - podio@0.15
     - pythia8@8.306 +fastjet
     - python@3.10.4
     - py-numpy@1.22.3
@@ -47,4 +47,6 @@ spack:
   packages:
     all:
       compiler: [gcc]
+      variants:
+        build_type=Release
   view: /usr/local