xfce spin size

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:01:27 +0200
Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Am Sonntag, den 19.09.2010, 01:23 +0200 schrieb Adam Williamson:
> > 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?
> 
> I don't like the idea of removing Java. Instead I suggest to remove
> ether midori or firefox as we don't need two browsers. If we drop
> firefox, I'm fine with dropping java too.

I think the only way that would get enough space with that is to drop
java + firefox. Midori and webkitgtk amount to 6 or 7MB. 

> > 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.
> 
> I have built a new xfwm4 package with "Provides:
> firstboot(windowmanager)", so we get rid of metacity now. 
> Let's see how much this saves us before we decide to drop more things.

Nothing, as we are using gdm, which in turn requires control-center
which requires metacity. ;( 

kevin
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