[Mageia-dev] size of iso dvds

Wed Feb 15 13:12:04 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Florian Hubold at 15/02/12 11:51 did gyre and gimble:
+> 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 ...
+
+Yeah but also a lot of people are now switching to fast, but small SSDs.
+On these types of install space is at a premium, so I'd welcome anything
+that keeps the things I don't use super often as small and compact as
+possible.
+
+SSD space is not cheap. Everything is a trade off.
+
+> Also normally you only install one language pack ...
+
+I agree with this bit, but some language packs can be pretty large
+uncompressed...
+
+What would maybe be nice is compromise that should maybe be planned for
+mga3...  where the data is non-compressed in the package, but
+re-compressed during install. Packages are smaller, but installed space
+is the same at the expense of extra install time. It's still a trade off
+and it (might) make packaging more hassle (calculating hashes may be
+awkward), but otherwise I'd say it's a win (tho' I fully accept that's
+subjective).
+
+Col
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