Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 8 (TC8) Available Now!

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Kevin Kofler (kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx) said: 
> Andre Robatino wrote:
> > *IMPORTANT*: Both TC8 install DVDs are oversized and will not fit on
> > single-layer DVDs. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD#Capacity for
> > DVD size limits.
> 
> See what damage "Mini"DebugInfo is doing? Nobody (other than me) cared about 
> CD size for the live CDs, but surely DVD size for the install DVD matters!
> 
> It's time to revert "Mini"DebugInfo which isn't actually Mini at all! (It 
> increases compressed size, i.e. the live image size and the size of the RPMs 
> on the DVD, by over 10%! The smaller installed percentages the feature 
> advertises are only achieved through compression, which obviously doesn't 
> help after compression, if it was even implemented at all.)
> 
> Stop the creeping biggerism!

Not to let silly things like facts get in the way of a good rant, but the
images went over size because MATE & texlive are now getting pulled in via
deps when they weren't before, not because of incremental minidebuginfo
changes.

Carry on...

Bill
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