making the i386 livecd fit

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Jan 29 18:52:18 UTC 2008


Luke Macken (lmacken at redhat.com) said: 
> /usr/share/doc is 141mb, but I'm not sure how viable it would be to
> remove it (everything except the release notes).  We could possibly split out
> the big guys into -docs subpackages.
> 
> The largest documentation directories being:
> 
>     5.1M ./bash-3.2
>     6.8M ./cups-1.3.5
>     8.1M ./ghostscript-8.61
>     9.4M ./selinux-policy-3.2.5

While that's 30MB on disk, using bzip2 as an approximation, that would only
save about 3.5MB of CD space. Still may be worth doing.

Bill




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