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

[Matthias Clasen]

On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 10:24 +0200, 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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As long as you are willing to ignore the rpm verification issue that
gets raised every time this is mentioned (or go with Douglas'
fixup-script approach), dropping language support is certainly going to
give you just as much if not more space savings. 

I recently added %lang tags to most of the big gnome help documents
documents in /usr/share/gnome/help. Also, dropping CJK fonts easily
saves some 40M.


Matthias