size of F17 install DVD

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 19:20 +0000, Andre Robatino wrote:
> 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

*all* langpacks are missing from Beta, in fact, not just LO ones:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804216

does this account for more of the difference?
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