On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 18:39, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > > > > > I just had a look at the FC2 test 1 download for iso's and it is 4 cd's, > > > > plus a nother 4 for the SRPM's. Wow, > > > Yea, it's not what anyone really wants. Suggestions on what to remove are > > > most welcome. :) > > all the kernel rpms are together around 100MB... ;) > > kernel-source takes up the bulk of this, weighing in at 40MB. > That's not going to get any smaller. The actual kernel images > are around 16MB each, and there's only 4 of them. > (i586/i586-smp/i686/i686-smp) > > We're actually shipping *less* kernel RPMs than FC1. > - No Athlon build > - No 386 build > - No bigmem build > - No debug build (though this will change for the final FC2) > > I'm not sure we can actually trim it any further without losing > functionality that some folks may want, or punishing low-end users. Yeah, I know my suble attempt at humor went slightly wide of the mark... I think the distro is substantially less useful without the kernel, nothwithstanding the number of parts. feeping creatureism seeming to be most of the source of growth although some allegedly high-value packages are quite large: kde ~277MB openoffice ~121 emacs ~25 xemacs ~40 nickling and dimeing could probably squeeze it back on 3 cd's but it's probably not worth it. > We could lose the UP 586 build, and only ship the 586-smp kernel, > which should run fine, but at a slight performance loss. > Frankly, to save 16MB I don't think its worth it. > > Dave > > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2
