Nigel Metheringham wrote : > On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 11:26 -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > > Matthias Saou wrote: > > > It doesn't fit on regular 4.7GB DVD-Rs :-( > > The only way we can solve this problem is by trimming the distribution. > > > > A bunch of broken java related stuff was removed from rawhide > > yesterday, and I'm working on reducing package sizes across the board > > by removing useless or redundant documentation. > > > I guess the request I was going to put in, that the headers and repo > metadata also be added to the DVDs so they could be used in place of the > exploded distribution on mirrors (ie loopback mount the DVDs and so save > another 5GB of disk) ain't going to be possible... Metadata should be small enough for this : The current (compressed) common XML metadata for the set of i386 development packages takes up a mere 1MB ;-) Maybe it's even already included, but if not, you may want to poke someone and/or file an RFE, as it does seem like a good idea to me. Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) - Linux kernel 2.6.8-1.521.dell Load : 0.25 0.44 0.72
