changelogs in packages and space use

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Aug 31 20:25:59 UTC 2007


seth vidal (skvidal at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> on my system 1128 packages installed:
>   new changelogs: 2.2M
>   old changelogs: 8.6M
> 
> 
> That may not seem like much but when we're squinched for space in 700M
> on a livecd that 8.6M might be all that's needed.

I'm not sure. Trying to fit on a livecd is always a losing game - software
never gets smaller, the media never gets bigger; all this will save us
is maybe one release cycle of pain.

It's not to say we can't try and not have the data in so many places,
but I don't think livecd should be the deciding reason.

Bill




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