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

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

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Tim Lauridsen 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?
>>
>>   
> 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.
> 

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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Jeroen van Meeuwen
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