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

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

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Douglas McClendon wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
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> [....]
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> $0.02...
> 

This however does not concern whether we may or may not have unneeded
files on the LiveCD as of *right now*, and if we could possibly delete
those files (manually yet automated) to save space.

We're not talking yum/rpm extensions, we're talking
subprocess.call(["rm","-rf","/usr/share/doc/some/dir"],
		preexecfn=self.run_in_root)

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Jeroen van Meeuwen
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