i686 (and likely x86_64) Live image not fitting on CD

[Colin Walters]

2008/9/22 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>:
> On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 18:08 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 17:56 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> > http://jkeating.fedorapeople.org/alpha2beta-live-diff has a listing of
>> > the package differences between Alpha and Beta.  I would really
>> > appreciate some help looking for something to cut for size, since you
>> > guys are supposed to own this config now.
>>
>> Herm. this may actually be a diff of the Education-Math live image to
>> the Alpha Desktop image.  I made a mistake somewhere.  I'm re-creating
>> the Desktop image, although they share many of the same packages.
>
> I fixed the diff.  It is now correct, and we're still 43 megs oversize.

I spent a bit more time looking at this and am concluding we're dying
the death of a lot of < 0.5meg cuts.  Aside from our old friends,
fonts:
new package un-core-fonts-batang: 12971087
new package un-core-fonts-dotum: 7769083
new package un-core-fonts-gungseo: 6294199
new package un-core-fonts-dinaru: 3108519

I'm not qualified to evaluate these.  Can someone with experience in
localization evaluate whether the GNOME desktop coverage is enough to
warrant shipping them?

What I'm currently thinking is that the install image needs to be
enough to bootstrap to a richer experience such as office tools or a
development environment.  We need some sort of post-install process
that fills out the system with the parts we couldn't fit in the live
image, and also suggests things such as OpenOffice.  I think the right
way to do this is comps; I'll take a look at how we might do this with
PackageKit.