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

[Douglas McClendon]

Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
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> Douglas McClendon wrote:
>> Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
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>>> Here's a thought:
>>>
>>> 1304 random packages will install 724 MB of data in /usr/share/doc
>>>
>>> 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?
>> [....]
>>
>> $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)
> 

What part of

"
IMO, the idealistic unrealistic solution (the kind I love talking about 
the most)
"

went over your head ;)

-dmc



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