Fedora has become fat!

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Mon Mar 22 13:56:05 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 01:50 +0100, Christoph Wickert 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?

Download the ISOs, boot them in qemu, rpm -qa inside them...

Shame that the compose logs only go back to February though.

- ajax
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