Am 15.10.2012 21:47, schrieb Matthew Miller: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 03:24:09PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: >>>> Total download size: 94 M >>>> Installed size: 401 M >>> Of which one quarter is the kernel and the other quarter is glibc locale >>> support, right? >> Or more: >> 122659574 kernel >> 117821428 glibc-common >> 35623360 linux-firmware >> 14233540 coreutils >> 13845828 glibc > > So, if a minimal image is a very high priority, this could be shrunk. > Handwaving aside the difficulty for a moment, if the default kernel split > out some of the drivers, maybe that could get down to 60MB. Leave out > linux-firmware.... And glibc-common is almost _entirely_ locale and i18n. > Because we still want to be _Fedora_, not a tiny-linux distro but what speaks against sub-packages and a mtea-packge installed as default which pulls all the packages in to have the same state as now but leave the option to remove meta-package and unneeded locale to the administrator? one may say "disk storage is nothing these days" iw ould say: mulitply it with 20, 50, 100 virtual machines on really expensive SAN-storage where "disk space is cheap" is not true
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