On Oct 15, 2012, at 1:47 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > 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, let's leave > coreutils and glibc as-is. Still, though, we've shaved off 200+ MB. > > With this, the three versions of "minimal" you give come down to about: > > @core + kernel: 300MB > systemd [...] yum: 240MB 20% savings > systemd + not yum: 195M 35% savings > > Chew away at the dependencies and at the size of some of the other packages > (python 2to3, I'm looking at you), and we could get the middle option down > below 200MB. In my opinion, Minimal should include yum. Without yum, Minimal is suddenly not Fedora. It's like the brim is totally missing. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
