xfce spin size

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 01:23:28 +0200
Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 17:18 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > Currently we are over sized on the Xfce spin for f14: 
> > 
> >       xfce-i386-20100917.16.iso   17-Sep-2010 17:54  727M  
> >       xfce-x86_64-20100916.15.iso 16-Sep-2010 17:07  728M  
> > 
> > So, we need about 30ish MB. 
> > 
> > I can't see any easy thing to remove, so I am going to reluctantly
> > suggest we remove the java-1.6.0-openjdk* packages. :( 
> > This means no java plugin out of the box on firefox (openjdk seems
> > to have issues with midori, so I wouldn't call it working there). 
> > 
> > Any objections? Or other items people see for us to remove?
> 
> Only question is, does the spin need to be CD sized any more? have you
> considered the things the desktop group considered?

I think it does. People picking Xfce could well have older machines and
thus cdrom drives and possibly not booting from usb. 
> 
> does xfce use metacity as the wm? If not, you may be able to save
> space by doing what kde did and running firstboot inside xfce's wm,
> thus saving the space of metacity+deps.

Yeah, I am going to look at doing this, but it doesn't help us any
until we get rid of gdm. ;( 

> I asked for live desktop images for rc2, btw - so an xfce beta rc2
> image should be available for testing soon.

ok. Cool. thanks. 

kevin
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