[Fedora-spins] Spin sizes jumped 25-30 MB

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Fri Oct 15 23:15:08 UTC 2010


On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 00:05:05 +0100,
  Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> > The nightly composes for spins had a noticeable jump in size between
> > the 13th and 14th builds.
> >
> > It looks like these bumps have put the broffice and xfce spins over their
> > target sizes (assuming they are targeting 703 MiB CDs).
> 
> yes, that's because of the fedora-logos package which adds some stupid
> deps which ultimately pulls in perl! Complete insanity, why a "logos"
> package needs to depend on any form of binary program is beyond me and
> whoever made that decision needs to go and find a better supplier for
> their crack.

I thought I had checked for that in the logs, but didn't see perl getting
installed. If the problem is still there tomorrow, I'll look more carefully.
There was a logos update today that might fix that issue.


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