Saving space on the DVD

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Thu Apr 16 09:35:06 UTC 2009


Jesse Keating wrote:
> We've grown to the point of overflowing the DVD.  In order to save space
> I've done a lot of testing and comparison.  The current strategy I see
> for getting DVDs back in size is to drop a few things.
> 
> @java-development
> java-1.5.0-gcj-devel
> gnome-games
> kdegames
> 
> With these removals we are much better on size.  These are late changes,
> and I haven't gone too deep into examining which packages themselves
> grew in size, this was just the quickest way to recover the space.  I
> wanted to post this here for discussion and maybe alternatives.

I'm not quite sure how all this works.  Would developers still be able
to install these with yum?

Andrew.




More information about the fedora-devel-list mailing list