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

[Tim Lauridsen]

Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
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> Tim Lauridsen wrote:
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>> 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.
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>>> Any thoughts?
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>> I think it is a bad idea, because many people uses the Live CD's to
>> install to their systems, and then they end up with a system
>> without doc files, with no easy way to get the docs back on the systems.
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> That's not true as anaconda needs the RPMs to install to a system,
> right? Last time I checked a LiveCD could not be installed "offline"
> because of this.
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The Live CD installer just copy the whole system on the Live CD to the 
local hard drive, and make some changes, it don't use any rpms.

Tim
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