[Mageia-dev] base system size for next beta1

Fri Mar 18 10:07:12 CET 2011

On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:14:14 +0100, Anne nicolas <ennael1 at gmail.com> wrote:
+
+> Hi there
+> 
+> We've had quite a lot of comments, proved or not, about base system
+> size. Looks like it's growing much too fast. So one job for next beta
+> would be to investigate on this:
+> 
+> - check real size
+> - check deps
+> - check rpmsrate for isos
+> ...
+> 
+> Comments welcome
+> 
+
+I did a fast-n-dirty check:
+
+
+urpmq -d basesystem > pkg.lst
+(clean pkg.lst from options like *|*|*)
+wc -l pkg.lst
+rpm -q --qf "%{SIZE} %{NAME}\n" $(cat pkg.lst) | sort -rn | head -n 20
+
+mageia-alpha2:
+
+paradise:~/bs# wc -l pkg.lst
+359 pkg.lst
+paradise:~/bs# rpm -q --qf "%{SIZE} %{NAME}\n" $(cat pkg.lst) | sort -rn | head -n 20
+45506337 kernel-desktop-2.6.37.4-1.mga
+40791645 perl
+25020180 glibc
+19551741 gtk+2.0
+12553946 coreutils
+10865049 nss
+9223562 seahorse
+8571631 gnome-icon-theme
+8546929 cracklib-dicts
+7918625 initscripts
+6868616 lib64smbclient0
+6820286 gnupg2
+6613652 gnome-disk-utility
+6078776 GConf2
+5991009 util-linux-ng
+5875196 lib64gtk+-x11-2.0_0
+5534040 libgphoto-common
+5034247 gnome-keyring
+4954052 gnupg
+4832218 glib2.0-common
+
+mandriva-cooker:
+
+werewolf:~/bs# wc -l pkg.lst
+307 pkg.lst
+werewolf:~/bs# rpm -q --qf "%{SIZE} %{NAME}\n" $(cat pkg.lst) | sort -rn | head -n 20
+45503738 kernel-desktop-2.6.37.2-1mnb
+25020574 glibc
+19551741 gtk+2.0
+12600040 coreutils
+9774536 lib64krb53
+9250961 seahorse
+8547843 cracklib-dicts
+7249556 initscripts
+6938280 lib64smbclient0
+6815473 gnupg2
+6613652 gnome-disk-utility
+6082605 GConf2
+5992302 util-linux-ng
+5875196 lib64gtk+-x11-2.0_0
+5566480 libgphoto-common
+5128599 gnome-keyring
+4974163 gnupg
+4852925 glib2.0-common
+4790715 ldetect-lst
+3541467 xfsprogs
+
+Big differences: perl+nss+gnome-icon-theme = 60Mb.
+It looks strange that nothing is pulling perl in cooker, is it a bug ?
+
+The rest is a big cherry-picking work...
+
+Perhaps the problem is not basesystem itself.
+I noticed that the installer in alpha2 installs a lot of things (many
+kde things, I seem to remember) even before asking about what desktop
+env the user wants.
+Perhaps the problem is in the installer...
+
+Anyways, a x86-64 mageia system (without texlive ;) ) with some added programs
+I needed after the install, and after deleting all kde|qt|plasma is now at:
+
+paradise:~/bs# df
+Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
+/dev/sda1     ext4     39G  3.2G   34G   9% /
+/dev/sda2    btrfs    108G   56K  106G   1% /scratch/local
+
+Texlive adds like another 1.5Gb to the payload.
+
+Just a quick check.
+
+-- 
+J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com>     \               Software is like sex:
+                                         \         It's better when it's free
+