[Fedora-livecd-list] Trimming the size of LiveCD's

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

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Douglas McClendon wrote:
> Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> Douglas McClendon wrote:
>>>> Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
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>>>>> Here's a thought:
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>>>>> 1304 random packages will install 724 MB of data in /usr/share/doc
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>>>>> I'm sure there is /something/ to gain here. If every package on average
>>>>> installs ~0.5 MB of docs... Would it worth figuring out what docs
>>>>> should
>>>>> be on the LiveCD in the first place? I guess removing everything RPM
>>>>> calls docs is too much, as this will include man-pages as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any thoughts?
>>>> [....]
>>>>
>>>> $0.02...
>>>>
> 
> This however does not concern whether we may or may not have unneeded
> files on the LiveCD as of *right now*, and if we could possibly delete
> those files (manually yet automated) to save space.
> 
> We're not talking yum/rpm extensions, we're talking
> subprocess.call(["rm","-rf","/usr/share/doc/some/dir"],
>         preexecfn=self.run_in_root)
> 
> 
>> What part of
> 
>> "
>> IMO, the idealistic unrealistic solution (the kind I love talking about
>> the most)
>> "
> 
>> went over your head ;)
> 

I'm sorry; the OT part.

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