On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 17:41 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > I spent a bit more time looking at this and am concluding we're dying > the death of a lot of < 0.5meg cuts. > We need some sort of post-install process that fills out the system with > the parts we couldn't fit in the live image Playing around earlier, I see that locale -a |grep -F _ |cut -d _ -f 1 | sort -u|wc -l says that glibc supports 137 language identifiers, munging all variants of a language together as one. So if we had 100% coverage of all localizations throughout our stack, and disregarded any differences between all Spanish, English, etc. variants. and disregarded the size of any actual software on the cd, that gives < 6 megs available per language :-) And FWIW as a random reference point from F9 du -ch /usr/share/gnome/help/*/de comes to 5.5M with just... ekiga eog fedora-release-notes file-roller gcalctool gedit gnome-applets gnome-games gnome-netstatus gnome-panel gnome-terminal gnome-user-docs gucharmap rhythmbox sound-juicer system-config-date system-config-services system-config-users tomboy totem C. -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
