[Mageia-dev] [ANN] unbloated installer stage1

Tue Jan 24 15:38:25 CET 2012

2012/1/24 Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl>:
+> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 01:09:02PM +0100, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
+>> Total gain on boot.iso: -23Mb (57.5%) on x86_64 (less on i586)
+>
+> Yay, more space for GNOME! (my interest :P)
+:)
+Currently we also need a way to fix our iso creation :
+for example on Mageia DVD 1 there's 4703 packages available for a size
+of 3.7 Giga while Alpha 3 is providing only 4208 packages for a size
+of 4Gb ... so we're using more space for less packages.
+For kde's part we've got already some bug reports reporting missing
+packages that where only suggests before (yes misc  i agree that
+suggests is not the right way to add stuff but since they are not
+*required* to work a kde session there's no reason to add them as
+requires) & available in previous Mageia 1.
+I can of course add them as requires on the task-kde package but i
+think we should first start what we want to provides by default with
+our task.
+What should task-minimal requires ? just the desktop ? an irc client ?
+a web client  (well here firefox is the default one) a mail client ?
+etc etc
+Enabling suggests on bcd configuration is certainly a no go because
+we're already @ 4Go for dvd iso so part of the problem could probably
+be fixed in the task- packages & after we can probably still add some
+packages on the configuration.
+
+
+-- 
+Balcaen John
+Jabber-id: mikala at jabber.littleboboy.net
+