Fedora has become fat!

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 6:50 PM, 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?
>

Ok so here is the list:

LXDE F12 has 919 packages with a size of 1166250754 bytes
LXDE F13 has 931 packages with a size of 1285942460 bytes
The difference is a growth of 113 MB.

Of the packages that are the same between the lists; the biggest
package growth was ibus-pinyin which grew 32 MB. The biggest package
shrink was -25 MB  from mesa-dri-drivers. Overall there was a growth
of only 8 MB in this list.

The following packages were added for a growth of 155 MB.
abrt-plugin-runapp 7774
ar9170-firmware 18034
c-ares 105565
cifs-utils 68063
cyrus-sasl-gssapi 27644
dmz-cursor-themes 6526975
foomatic-db-filesystem 0
foomatic-db-ppds 25452297
ghostscript-cups 45927
gmp 1017151
hal-filesystem 0
hostname 19754
ibus-pinyin-open-phrase 62115840
iwl5150-firmware 344430
iwl6000-firmware 469192
keyutils 61399
keyutils-libs 33144
libgnome-keyring 152059
libldb 218056
libnih 478074
libsysfs 146037
libtevent 38916
linux-firmware 8109143
lohit-devanagari-fonts 113721
lxdm 158823
lyx-fonts 248949
nss-sysinit 29333
paratype-pt-sans-fonts 3007777
pcsc-lite-libs 42952
plymouth-core-libs 164500
plymouth-graphics-libs 29828
poppler-data 11987205
report 110891
report-config-bugzilla-redhat-com 83
report-gtk 16147
report-plugin-bugzilla 68509
setools-libs-python 1458065
sil-abyssinica-fonts 649794
sssd 4320472
sssd-client 78917
system-setup-keyboard 12380
tigervnc-server 3077201
transmission-cli 464977
transmission-common 981554
transmission-gtk 2253132
usb_modeswitch 87225
wqy-zenhei-fonts 13319014
xorg-x11-drv-wacom 277279
xorg-x11-fonts-misc 7134279

The following packages were dropped  for a removal of 49 MB

abrt-plugin-kerneloopsreporter 20812
abrt-plugin-sqlite3 35677
abyssinica-fonts 649794
bitmap-fonts 7045704
bluecurve-cursor-theme 3181040
cjkuni-uming-fonts 21552609
dirmngr 587630
ethtool 228452
fedora-setup-keyboard 11575
gnupg 5124177
gnupg2 6806199
gtk-nodoka-engine 107607
kernel-firmware 2067581
libbdevid-python 7868
libgsf-gnome 58945
libksba 275500
linuxwacom 569734
lohit-hindi-fonts 110982
lohit-maithili-fonts 110768
lohit-marathi-fonts 110736
lxde-settings-daemon 51877
lxterminal 183963
lyx-cmex10-fonts 21092
lyx-cmmi10-fonts 32556
lyx-cmr10-fonts 26348
lyx-cmsy10-fonts 29392
lyx-fonts-common 3301
nash 271280
nodoka-filesystem 0
nodoka-metacity-theme 35397
paktype-fonts-common 28567
perl-File-BaseDir 13194
perl-File-DesktopEntry 29350
plymouth-libs 169648
python-enchant 373655
python-ethtool 45739
slim 252488
xorg-x11-apps 686302
xterm 885035


So 8+155-49 comes out to 114 MB growth mostly from added packages.




-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?
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