making the i386 livecd fit
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Wed Jan 30 03:25:09 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 20:01 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jeremy Katz (katzj at redhat.com) said:
> > > While that's 30MB on disk, using bzip2 as an approximation, that would only
> > > save about 3.5MB of CD space. Still may be worth doing.
> >
> > I've been pretty vocally opposed to removing documentation in the past.
> > Because if the documentation is interesting to ship for the real case,
> > then it's also interesting for being on the live images. Especially as
> > they're installable. And especially as we start looking at things like
> > deltarpm where having those bits on the disk to begin with matters
>
> But is it interesting to ship for the real case, or should it be in
> a separate package? For example, I'm not sure that
> /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-8.61/Humor.htm is really relevant in all cases.
Or should we not ship it at all? Sticking it in a separate package just
leads to the other problems of bloated metadata, etc. And that's a
really _dumb_ file :-)
Jeremy
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