Yes, my .less files do recompile if I touch the source files. That all works just fine, we are just trying to see if we can get better compression out of the system such that there is no whitespace. The documents on LessCss.org indicate the "compress" option is not perfect.
Looking over the C1 packages, we might try working with this one to see if we can get what we need out of this.
http://www.composite.net/Products/Add-ons/All/Composite.Web.BundlingAndMinification
"Compress using less built-in compression. This does an okay job but does not utilise all the tricks of dedicated css compression. Please feel free to improve our compressed output with a pull request"We are just trying to squeeze out as many bytes as we can.
Looking over the C1 packages, we might try working with this one to see if we can get what we need out of this.
http://www.composite.net/Products/Add-ons/All/Composite.Web.BundlingAndMinification