Matthew Miller (mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > Continuing a discussion with gholms on IRC. There's a general question of > how minimal we want the cloud image to be overall. I'd like to make it > reasonably small (where reasonable is some hand-wavy value), but we're not > ever going to be a stripped down TinyLinux or Damn Small Linux. > > Garrett makes the point that the Fedora images should "feel like Fedora". We > can probably discuss what exactly that means, but, okay, I can see that as a > basic principle to weigh against "as tiny as possible". He also mentioned > earlier that he has gotten feedback that people like to have man pages > available. Right now, we're shipping about 6.2MB (on-disk) of man pages, > but, um, no man browser. Adding man would add about 8.8M on-disk, as it > pulls in groff and less. (Less is relatively tiny -- groff is the big > thing.) * > > > I really like having less around. I pretty much miss it on every system > where it isn't installed. And installing all those man pages with no way to > look at them seems silly. > > Thoughts? Non-binding votes? There was a request to add less explictly to the minimal install a while ago - in assorted earlier releases it was pulled in indirectly via a dependency from gzip (!). > * Footnote: I see that groff is split into groff-base and groff, with the > former being "only necessary parts of groff formatting system which are > required to display manual pages, and the groff's default display device > (PostScript)". But, man requires less, and less requires the main groff > package. So if we fix that, total impact is 4.6MB. Why does less reqiure the main groff package? Is that an accident? Bill _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
