[Fedora-spins] firstaidkit-plugins-all and fedora-live-base.ks

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 02:05:03PM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
>    On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Paul W. Frields <[1]stickster at gmail.com>
>    wrote:
> 
>      On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 05:09:40PM -0500, Luke Macken wrote:
>      > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 03:29:40PM -0600, Adam Miller wrote:
>      > > Today in our meeting (that is still going on) it was brought up that
>      > > we should push for having firstaidkit-plugins-all for all spins in
>      > > order to help users who find themselves between a rock and a hard
>      > > spot.
>      > >
>      > > 15:20 < lmacken> fedora-live-base.ks:#firstaidkit-plugin-all
>      > >
>      > > It was then noticed that it is simply commented out in the
>      kickstart,
>      > > which begs the question: why?
>      > >
>      > > Just a curiosity as to why and if we could move to have it
>      uncommented?
>      >
>      > It looks like Rahul Sundaram dropped it to save space, along with a
>      few
>      > other non desktop oriented packages, in commit ae4afb9f.
>      >
>      > Yum on my rawhide box is telling me that the installed size of the
>      > firstaidkit-plugin-all package with deps is 1MB. �I haven't attempted
>      to
>      > spin up a F13 live image recently, so I'm not sure how tight we
>      > currently are for space, but having some system recovery tools in our
>      > spins is important.
> 
>      And my understanding was the Desktop spin (for instance) was no longer
>      going to target a CD medium because the size limitation is really
>      starting to create substantial problems.
> 
>    I think we should be able to pair this down back under 700 meg. My Moblin
>    live image iso comes in at 400 Mb and a basic GNOME desktop only adds 50
>    meg to this. There is one package that pulls in perl which alone saves
>    over 40 meg off a live CD image so if that could be fixed (i have one bug
>    open for it, need to do one for anaconda) and with some of the other wins
>    that I got from the mini.ks file I would be interested to see what the
>    gnome-desktop size comparison is to the standard base.ks

http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/desktop/

Looks like ~840-850 MB right now for the desktop spin as-is.

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