Saving space on the DVD
Michal Hlavinka
mhlavink at redhat.com
Thu Apr 16 09:53:47 UTC 2009
On Thursday 16 April 2009 02:46:14 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.
Hi,
I think packages requiring internet connection to work should be first on the
line (for example torrent clients). Lot of people use dvd for installation
because they have no/too slow internet connection.
Michal Hlavinka
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