On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Why has Fedora become so fat in the F13 development cycle? > > * The LXDE Spin has grown from 464 MB to 509 MB [1] without a > single change in the Spin. There actually was a change, SLIM was > replaced with LXDM, but LXDM is actually smaller because it > doesn't require the desktop-brackgrounds package > * The Xfce spin has grown from 697 MB to 744 MB [2] without major > changes. In fact, we dropped totem and gftp, which is at least > 10 MB. > > Any ideas what made Fedora become so fat or how to further investigate > this? > Ok so here is the list: LXDE F12 has 919 packages with a size of 1166250754 bytes LXDE F13 has 931 packages with a size of 1285942460 bytes The difference is a growth of 113 MB. Of the packages that are the same between the lists; the biggest package growth was ibus-pinyin which grew 32 MB. The biggest package shrink was -25 MB from mesa-dri-drivers. Overall there was a growth of only 8 MB in this list. The following packages were added for a growth of 155 MB. abrt-plugin-runapp 7774 ar9170-firmware 18034 c-ares 105565 cifs-utils 68063 cyrus-sasl-gssapi 27644 dmz-cursor-themes 6526975 foomatic-db-filesystem 0 foomatic-db-ppds 25452297 ghostscript-cups 45927 gmp 1017151 hal-filesystem 0 hostname 19754 ibus-pinyin-open-phrase 62115840 iwl5150-firmware 344430 iwl6000-firmware 469192 keyutils 61399 keyutils-libs 33144 libgnome-keyring 152059 libldb 218056 libnih 478074 libsysfs 146037 libtevent 38916 linux-firmware 8109143 lohit-devanagari-fonts 113721 lxdm 158823 lyx-fonts 248949 nss-sysinit 29333 paratype-pt-sans-fonts 3007777 pcsc-lite-libs 42952 plymouth-core-libs 164500 plymouth-graphics-libs 29828 poppler-data 11987205 report 110891 report-config-bugzilla-redhat-com 83 report-gtk 16147 report-plugin-bugzilla 68509 setools-libs-python 1458065 sil-abyssinica-fonts 649794 sssd 4320472 sssd-client 78917 system-setup-keyboard 12380 tigervnc-server 3077201 transmission-cli 464977 transmission-common 981554 transmission-gtk 2253132 usb_modeswitch 87225 wqy-zenhei-fonts 13319014 xorg-x11-drv-wacom 277279 xorg-x11-fonts-misc 7134279 The following packages were dropped for a removal of 49 MB abrt-plugin-kerneloopsreporter 20812 abrt-plugin-sqlite3 35677 abyssinica-fonts 649794 bitmap-fonts 7045704 bluecurve-cursor-theme 3181040 cjkuni-uming-fonts 21552609 dirmngr 587630 ethtool 228452 fedora-setup-keyboard 11575 gnupg 5124177 gnupg2 6806199 gtk-nodoka-engine 107607 kernel-firmware 2067581 libbdevid-python 7868 libgsf-gnome 58945 libksba 275500 linuxwacom 569734 lohit-hindi-fonts 110982 lohit-maithili-fonts 110768 lohit-marathi-fonts 110736 lxde-settings-daemon 51877 lxterminal 183963 lyx-cmex10-fonts 21092 lyx-cmmi10-fonts 32556 lyx-cmr10-fonts 26348 lyx-cmsy10-fonts 29392 lyx-fonts-common 3301 nash 271280 nodoka-filesystem 0 nodoka-metacity-theme 35397 paktype-fonts-common 28567 perl-File-BaseDir 13194 perl-File-DesktopEntry 29350 plymouth-libs 169648 python-enchant 373655 python-ethtool 45739 slim 252488 xorg-x11-apps 686302 xterm 885035 So 8+155-49 comes out to 114 MB growth mostly from added packages. -- Stephen J Smoogen. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
