F13 Xfce Spin RC Planning

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Dienstag, den 20.04.2010, 21:36 +0200 schrieb Johannes Lips:
> On 04/20/2010 09:32 PM, Summer Matthias wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:51:45 -0500
> > Adam Miller<maxamillion at fedoraproject.org>  wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >    
> >> Another bit I wanted to talk about is the fact that our nightly builds
> >> are larger than the size of a cdrom and thus makes them difficult as a
> >> target for live cds. I'd like to ask for opinions on what we would
> >> like to have cut/removed/whatever. Current size can be seen here:
> >> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/xfce/
> >>
> >> And a list of current packages here:
> >> https://fedorahosted.org/spin-kickstarts/browser/fedora-livecd-xfce.ks
> >>
> >> Opinions welcome!
> >>      
> > Maybe you can remove:
> > - transmission or rtorrent

I think we really need a torrent client, but I'm fine removing some
console stuff.

> > - xfce4-eyes-plugin

This is the most important plugin ever!!! ;)

Just kidding: It doesn't save much space, only 75 KB.

> I think Christoph filed a bug to remove some dependencies:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=581144
> 
> Don't know if there is any recent changes concerning this issue.

I have set the bug to need info. If Warren doesn't respond in time, I'm
willing to (ab)use my proven packager powers to fix this.

I think there are also other ways to save space, I'm thinking of
explicitly excluding some input methods or fonts. Is this appropriate or
are we discriminating certain people/countries/languages then?

> Greetings,
> Johannes

Regards,
Christoph