On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 01:13:35PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > Has anyone looked at the possibility of having a shared CD or two > between the x86_64 and i386 installs? > > There's 412300KiB of noarch packages which are present in both x86_64 > and i386, and 436108KiB of i[36]86 packages in the x86_64 tree. and you can probably double this number if some packages would cast out their noarch stuff disguised as arch-dependend. For example almost all of tetex is noarch in essence (the whole texmf tree), which already adds up to 150-200M. Splitting out the texmf tree is a bit painful, it requires two src.rpms. > If a package ordering can be found which allows a bunch of those to go > onto a CD which is shared between x86_64 and i386 installations, we get > to lose a CD out of the set without running around like headless > chickens trying to excise useful packages to make the i386 tree smaller. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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