making the i386 livecd fit

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Jan 29 16:59:54 UTC 2008


Matthias Clasen (mclasen at redhat.com) said: 
> > > - don't include groups where upstream gnome is < 50% translated
> > > - don't include fonts that are only referenced in %fonts and those groups
> > > - remove ekiga, just because it drags in so much other stuff
> > > 
> > > Comments?
> 
> In the past, any attempts to go to a subset of language have always met
> with strong resistance. Just kicking out some fonts/input methods, but
> leaving the "unsupported" translations in the packages may send a
> somewhat mixed message, but is probably the only thing we can do since
> noone knows how to make %_install_langs work.

Yeah, I'm just wondering if it's worth it installing fonts for a
language that's only 10% translated in the desktop (for example.)

> Anyway, if we go with this approach, there should be at least a comment
> in the kickstart file explaining how the excluded font groups have been
> determined.

The alternative is to still kick out ekiga (sorry, it's pretty large),
and find the rest of the space somewhere else.

Bill




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