Desktop Live DVD: diff

[Matthias Clasen]

On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 21:47 +0100, Lars Herrmann wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 05.11.2009, 14:56 -0500 schrieb Matthias Clasen: 
> > On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 11:55 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm not sure I like the idea, if the idea is 'stop doing a small
> > > functional live image and make our smallest 'complete-out-of-the-box'
> > > image 2GB big'.
> > > 
> > 
> > The biggest gap in terms of 'complete-out-of-the-box' is OpenOffice.
> > Including that brings us up to around 850M or so.
> 
> But isn't this just because of the 3 million language packages
> provided ? Could the size kept small by providing uni-language or
> language-group spins ?
> 
> Just a thought
> 

I did that experiment back in August. Here is what I wrote back then:

> Replacing abiword with the entire openoffice suite blows the iso 
> size up to 825M. 
> 
> Replacing abiword with just oowriter still blows the iso size up 
> to 820M.
> 
> This is without any openoffice lang packs.