On 03/16/2018 05:11 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > The compile error is fixed, but the packages didn't magically get > smaller. > > I really kinda agree with Kevin, FWIW. The images have got > *significantly* bigger across the last few releases and we're just > sorta shrugging and going 'ok, whatever'. I keep seeing pushes to spin- > kickstarts to make image sizes bigger for no particular reason except > just 'stuff bloated', that's kinda sad. > > It's not really about whether things fit on a CD or not, it's about not > needlessly wasting bandwidth and storage space. If the packages are > bigger then they take up more space on our hard disks, USB sticks, on > mirrors, they take more time to transfer, and we *do* still have users > on slow and bandwidth-limited connections. Agreed. I think someone just needs to sit down and try and figure out why this is. I am not convinced (without evidence) that it's annobin or mini debuginfo (but of course I could be wrong). I can add this to my list, but not sure when I would get to it. Hopefully we will figure out the why, then we can look at how to fix it. kevin
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