[Mageia-dev] size of iso dvds

Wed Feb 15 12:51:11 CET 2012

Am 14.02.2012 19:36, schrieb Thierry Vignaud:
+> On 14 February 2012 18:39, Florian Hubold <doktor5000 at arcor.de> wrote:
+>> Somehow related, i just did some rpm size comparisons for thunderbird
+>> -l10n packages, to see what can be gained if we switch them back to
+>> uncompressing the (zipped) .xpi files and so let them profit from
+>> rpm binary payload compression. It's not much for a single package,
+>> but overall it's a reduction by 35%.
+> So we save a little space from DVDs but we'll quite a lot more on the
+> installed systems...
+> Bad tradeoff IMHO...
+Seriously? Smaller packages means quicker updates and less traffic,
+less mirror space used, more iso space available, marginally faster
+program runtime due to no on-the-fly decompression needed etc.
+
+And disk space is cheap, maybe not dirt-cheap anymore, considering
+the raise in prizes during the Thailand flood last year, but stilll ...
+Also normally you only install one language pack ...
+
+Comparison for disk-space used when installed (german language packe):
+
+uncompressed:
+2,1M
+
+.xpi, zip-compressed:
+412K
+>> Maybe this is a viable solution for other packages too, which currently
+>> carry files which are already compressed when building.
+> That would only waste more space on installed systemdsif we
+> uncompress man pages, info pages & the like too...
+>
+Nope, as that would be against the policy, those should stay (.xz) compressed.
+I though of other situations like for firefox/thunderbird language packs,
+where we can save some space. And IMHO we need that, see previous post
+about iso size, as packages increased their size significantly, so IMHO we
+have to do a tradeoff, otherwise the installation media package selection
+will get smaller and smaller over time.
+
+just my 2¢
+
+