What is the fascination with 'spins'

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 2/5/07, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 16:26:02 +0000,
>   "monty19@ hotmail.com" <monty19 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > But the question I asked before that still hasn't been answered, is how big
> > is Extras right now?  It looks (probably quite desceptively) relatively
> > small when looking at the directory on download.fedora.redhat.com.  Does
> > the sum total for Core and Extras really add up to more than the 4.7 GB
> > that a DVD would provide?  Do you really even need two DVD images to get a
> > complete install?
>
> On Saturday this is how big core+extras was:
> [root at bruno f7]# du -k
> 1048    ./core/Fedora/base
> 3352576 ./core/Fedora/RPMS
> 3353632 ./core/Fedora
> 7832    ./core/images/xen
> 7304    ./core/images/pxeboot
> 149904  ./core/images
> 11208   ./core/repodata
> 192     ./core/stylesheet-images
> 7684    ./core/isolinux
> 3522936 ./core
> 8       ./extras/repodata/repoview
> 6836    ./extras/repodata
> 4876048 ./extras
> 8398992 .
>

About 8GB
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