Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 04/16/2009 03:05 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: >> Jesse Keating wrote: >>> We've grown to the point of overflowing the DVD. In order to save space >>> I've done a lot of testing and comparison. The current strategy I see >>> for getting DVDs back in size is to drop a few things. >>> >>> @java-development >>> java-1.5.0-gcj-devel >>> gnome-games >>> kdegames >>> >>> With these removals we are much better on size. These are late changes, >>> and I haven't gone too deep into examining which packages themselves >>> grew in size, this was just the quickest way to recover the space. I >>> wanted to post this here for discussion and maybe alternatives. >> I'm not quite sure how all this works. Would developers still be able >> to install these with yum? > > Yes. The discussion is only about what won't be included in the DVD > image. The repository will continue to have all the packages and users > will be able to use yum or PackageKit to install them. Well, I can't see that's going to be a problem at all. It's a little unfortunate I suppose, but in practice developers always need the latest updates from yum anyway. Andrew. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
