size of F17 install DVD

[Kamil Paral]

> nonamedotc <nonamedotc <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Could someone please tell me why the install DVD for F17 is smaller
> > than
> > that for earlier releases. The install DVD is 2.3 GB whereas the
> > one for
> > F16, for example, is 3.5 GB. Thanks.
> 
> AFAIK no one has completely figured this out yet. I noticed that the
> libreoffice-langpack-* packages are on the F16 DVD but not later, and
> based on
> the average size and number of these that seems to account for about
> half of the
> size difference. Here are links to package lists (sorted by size in
> 1K-blocks)
> for the i386 F16 and F17 Alpha TC1 DVDs (the size reduction happened
> at Alpha
> TC1).
> 
> http://robatino.fedorapeople.org/sizes_Fedora-16-i386-DVD.txt
> http://robatino.fedorapeople.org/sizes_Fedora-17-Alpha.TC1-i386-DVD.txt

A bit of Python-fu computed following:

List of added packages by size:
http://fpaste.org/CM9U/
by name:
http://fpaste.org/F2v7/

Total 40967 4kB blocks ~ 160 MB.

List of removed packages by size:
http://fpaste.org/rokW/
by name:
http://fpaste.org/iYGp/

Total 322960 4kB blocks ~ 1261 MB.

That more or less matches, doesn't it?

Most space was saved by stripping translations (KDE, libreoffice), aspell and some fonts.

I guess the translations will be downloaded during/after installation... or not?