[Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 LiveCD contents...

Fri May 11 15:27:24 CEST 2012

2012/4/29 Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org>
+
+> Hi,
+>
+> So RC (and final) are getting closer, as usual the livecds are
+> problematic to get nice contents, while staying within the 700M limit
+>
+> Current RC build got me this:
+>
+> 668M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-GNOME-Africa-India-i586-CD.iso
+> 693M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-GNOME-Africa-India-x86_64-CD.iso
+>
+> 703M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-GNOME-Asia-Noindia-i586-CD.iso
+> 728M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-GNOME-Asia-Noindia-x86_64-CD.iso
+>
+> 684M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-GNOME-Europe1-Americas-i586-CD.iso
+> 709M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-GNOME-Europe1-Americas-x86_64-CD.iso
+>
+> 697M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-GNOME-Europe2-i586-CD.iso
+> 722M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-GNOME-Europe2-x86_64-CD.iso
+>
+> 662M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-KDE4-Africa-India-i586-CD.iso
+> 686M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-KDE4-Africa-India-x86_64-CD.iso
+>
+> 710M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-KDE4-Asia-Noindia-i586-CD.iso
+> 734M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-KDE4-Asia-Noindia-x86_64-CD.iso
+>
+> 690M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-KDE4-Europe1-Americas-i586-CD.iso
+> 714M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-KDE4-Europe1-Americas-x86_64-CD.iso
+>
+> 720M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-KDE4-Europe2-i586-CD.iso
+> 744M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-KDE4-Europe2-x86_64-CD.iso
+>
+>
+> So atleast every cd with size > 700M need to loose some stuff...
+>
+> So please help out with suggestions...
+>
+>
+> You can check out current contents here:
+>
+> http://tmb.mine.nu/Mageia/2/Mageia-2-rc-LiveCDs/
+>
+> Files are:
+> *.langs      - Supported languages on the CD
+> *.lst        - installed package list, sorted alphabetically
+> *.lst.full   - installed packages list, sorted by size
+>
+>
+> Now, remember that the livecds are squashfs compressed images,
+> so in order to drop ~20M on a cd, I need to drop ~30M-100M of
+> rpms depending on content...
+>
+> Also if you find something missing that relly _must_ be on the
+> cds (not just nice to have)... please comment on that too
+>
+> --
+> Thomas
+>
+
+Tried RC and found something what maybe shouldn't be there - KHelpcenter -
+and not just being there but quite prominently in the menu also
+(Documentation->Help only entry). As Live CD doesn't include help
+documentation KHC is mostly unuseful, you only get that such and such
+module isn't there. Sure, there is man and info pages but I rather doubt
+anyone is interested to use KHC for reading man or info. And more weirdness
+- there still is only peace KDE documentation you can read in KHC, namely
+documentation for Kipi plugins. Maybe excluding also Kipi plugins'
+documentation helps to save precious space? And I'd propose if not
+excluding KHV, then at least to remove it from main menu as it leads to
+erroneous impression there really is some helpful documentation ...
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