On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Paul W. Frields stickster@gmail.comwrote:
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
Peter