Inkscape on Live media

[Lubomir Rintel]

Hi,

there has been demand, especially from artists, to include Inkscape on a
Live media. As far as I know there were concerns about its size, as well
as about length of its dependency chain.

During the package refactoring, it was split, so that the core package
is less than a half of its original size, rpm is 11M and installed size
according to size tag is around 39M now. Apart from that, its dependency
chain was considerably shortened making most of the extensions optional
(no Fortran dependency now! :).

So my questions is -- is it possible to get Inkscape to the live media
now? If yes, what is needed to be done for it?

I'd like to check what extra dependencies does it add myself; would that
be possible? Is it sufficient for me to check against F11 Alpha live? If
not, where can I get the current kickstart?

[Bill Nottingham]

Lubomir Rintel ([e-mail]) said:
> I'd like to check what extra dependencies does it add myself; would that
> be possible? Is it sufficient for me to check against F11 Alpha live? If
> not, where can I get the current kickstart?

Best bet would be to pull the alpha kickstart from the spin-kickstarts
repository, and run some tests to see what happens.

Bill

[Lubomir Rintel]

On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 13:04 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Lubomir Rintel ([e-mail]) said:
> > I'd like to check what extra dependencies does it add myself; would that
> > be possible? Is it sufficient for me to check against F11 Alpha live? If
> > not, where can I get the current kickstart?
>
> Best bet would be to pull the alpha kickstart from the spin-kickstarts
> repository, and run some tests to see what happens.

Soo... generated i386 desktop live image 635M in size (I'd assume x86_64
is a bit bigger, right?), and here's a couple of packages that get
installed with inkscape (mostly vital for inkscape I'd say):

Package  Installed
size (1) size (2)

109 kB      252868 libwpg-0.1.3-2.fc11.i586
153 kB      354647 gc-7.1-7.fc11.i586
176 kB      531458 ImageMagick-c++-6.4.5.5-9.fc11.i586
841 kB     2299081 gsl-1.12-3.fc11.i586
 11 MB    39600044 inkscape-0.47-0.5.20090301svn.fc11.i586 (3)
          --------
          43038098

(1) Compressed
(2) SIZE tag
(3) This would make inkscape 6th biggest package, after gimp and before
evolution (not counting evo's data server)

Is this sufficiently small to be included in the Live media?

Regards,