Some analysis on the size of the minimal and Server installs of Fedora 23

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 08:39:24PM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> ==== Largest 10 packages ====
> 14288083: coreutils
> 14486819: glibc
> 18024040: kernel-modules
> 27253403: systemd

I've been working on making systemd packaging slightly more modular:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/systemd_package_split

This has been discussed during the recent systemd.conf2015 and
also on the mailing list
(http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-November/034917.html).

For server this is unlikely to have a significant impact,
but for container cases it can save about ~15MB of disk space.

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> 16648994: grub2
> 36004297: grub2-tools
> b'grub2-tools': 125
> b'grub2': 131

This is fairly big... It also pulls in fedora-logos, bringing the total
up to 60MB. systemd-boot and other minimalists look really nice in
comparison.

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> * The largest individual package in both deployments is the
> glibc-common package. This is primarily due to the 106MiB
> locale-archive. I'd really like to hear from glibc folks if there is
> something we can do to break this up into smaller pieces contained in
> different sub-packages with Suggests: dependencies.

Is there any progress on
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Glibc_locale_subpackaging
?

Zbyszek