Fedora has become fat!

Adam Miller maxamillion at fedoraproject.org
Mon Mar 22 13:20:05 UTC 2010


On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Christoph Wickert
<christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Why has Fedora become so fat in the F13 development cycle?
>
>      * The LXDE Spin has grown from 464 MB to 509 MB [1] without a
>        single change in the Spin. There actually was a change, SLIM was
>        replaced with LXDM, but LXDM is actually smaller because it
>        doesn't require the desktop-brackgrounds package
>      * The Xfce spin has grown from 697 MB to 744 MB [2] without major
>        changes. In fact, we dropped totem and gftp, which is at least
>        10 MB.
>
> Any ideas what made Fedora become so fat or how to further investigate
> this?
>
> Regards,
> Christoph
> [1]
> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/lxde/logs/SIZEHISTORY-i386
> [2]
> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/xfce/logs/SIZEHISTORY-i386
>
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Could it be related to the dracut issue we ran into during the F12 build cycle?

-AdamM

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