Fedora has become fat!

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:50 AM, 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?

I've found with Moblin and Sugar that one of the easiest/quickest but
probably not the most eloquent way is to do a 'rpm -qa | sort >
rpm-out' and then using some horrible diff hacking to get a rough idea
of what's changed. I know there's been some expansion of dependencies
with the addition of gstreamer-plugins-bad-free and it looks like some
other deps in some core things have been pulled in as well. I need to
sit down in the next week or two and go through the ones I've noted
mentally and follow up with bugs but my real life seems to keep
getting in the way.

Peter