On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 02:05:03PM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Paul W. Frields <[1]stickster@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 05:09:40PM -0500, Luke Macken wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 03:29:40PM -0600, Adam Miller wrote: > > Today in our meeting (that is still going on) it was brought up that > > we should push for having firstaidkit-plugins-all for all spins in > > order to help users who find themselves between a rock and a hard > > spot. > > > > 15:20 < lmacken> fedora-live-base.ks:#firstaidkit-plugin-all > > > > It was then noticed that it is simply commented out in the kickstart, > > which begs the question: why? > > > > Just a curiosity as to why and if we could move to have it uncommented? > > It looks like Rahul Sundaram dropped it to save space, along with a few > other non desktop oriented packages, in commit ae4afb9f. > > Yum on my rawhide box is telling me that the installed size of the > firstaidkit-plugin-all package with deps is 1MB. �I haven't attempted to > spin up a F13 live image recently, so I'm not sure how tight we > currently are for space, but having some system recovery tools in our > spins is important. And my understanding was the Desktop spin (for instance) was no longer going to target a CD medium because the size limitation is really starting to create substantial problems.
I think we should be able to pair this down back under 700 meg. My Moblin live image iso comes in at 400 Mb and a basic GNOME desktop only adds 50 meg to this. There is one package that pulls in perl which alone saves over 40 meg off a live CD image so if that could be fixed (i have one bug open for it, need to do one for anaconda) and with some of the other wins that I got from the mini.ks file I would be interested to see what the gnome-desktop size comparison is to the standard base.ks
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/desktop/
Looks like ~840-850 MB right now for the desktop spin as-is.