By going back to using interpreted languages. No more precompiled binaries where changing/adding patches and flags require full builds, just stream compiled/compressed source code directly to the target.

You could also extern the software to a webserver and only cache small parts of the software on the client. Instead of gigabytes of install sizes you'll be required to have a 1 or 10 gbit network link to run and stream features as you're acessing them.