i686 (and likely x86_64) Live image not fitting on CD

[Caolán McNamara]

On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 17:41 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> I spent a bit more time looking at this and am concluding we're dying
> the death of a lot of < 0.5meg cuts.

> We need some sort of post-install process that fills out the system with 
> the parts we couldn't fit in the live image

Playing around earlier, I see that

locale -a |grep -F _ |cut -d _ -f 1 | sort -u|wc -l

says that glibc supports 137 language identifiers, munging all variants
of a language together as one. So if we had 100% coverage of all
localizations throughout our stack, and disregarded any differences
between all Spanish, English, etc. variants. and disregarded the size of
any actual software on the cd, that gives < 6 megs available per language :-)

And FWIW as a random reference point from F9

du -ch /usr/share/gnome/help/*/de comes to 5.5M

with just...

ekiga
eog
fedora-release-notes
file-roller
gcalctool
gedit
gnome-applets
gnome-games
gnome-netstatus
gnome-panel
gnome-terminal
gnome-user-docs
gucharmap
rhythmbox
sound-juicer
system-config-date
system-config-services
system-config-users
tomboy
totem

C.