Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Fri May 11 09:04:08 UTC 2012


On 05/11/12 00:36, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Adam Jackson wrote:
>> Therefore I have difficulty evaluating just how much impact this would
>> be.  Do you have a link to the recipe for building such an image?  I
>> suspect the incremental cost of each additional desktop environment
>> would be successively lower, but without data...
> 
> The DVD is composed by glueing together the independent live images plus a 
> boot menu, so no, the cost will not be lower for each additional desktop 
> environment, the size is exactly the sum of the sizes of all the CD ISOs 
> (plus a negligible overhead).

Sounds more useful to me to just have a single live image which has
multiple desktop environments included, so you don't have the common
bits multiple times at the dvd ...

cheers,
  Gerd



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