[Fedora-livecd-list] Trimming the size of LiveCD's

[Tim Lauridsen]

Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
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> Here's a thought:
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> 1304 random packages will install 724 MB of data in /usr/share/doc
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> I'm sure there is /something/ to gain here. If every package on average
> installs ~0.5 MB of docs... Would it worth figuring out what docs should
> be on the LiveCD in the first place? I guess removing everything RPM
> calls docs is too much, as this will include man-pages as well.
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> Any thoughts?
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I think it is a bad idea, because many people uses the Live CD's to 
install to their systems, and then they end up with a system
without doc files, with no easy way to get the docs back on the systems.

Tim