Hi, I'm working on OS-level issues at OLPC. I saw Greg Dekoenigsberg's mail about Fedora/OLPC collaboration (thanks Greg!) and have another point to raise: We're currently working on upgrading from F7 to F9 for our next major software release. One of the challenges here is that by upgrading, over 100 packages were added to the build as dependencies of packages we were already including. Examples: totem-gstreamer now depends on gvfs which pulls in samba. HAL now pulls in smbios-utils (entirely Dell-specific hence not relevant here) perl and associated packages are now pulled in by mtd-utils, ntp, gstreamer-plugins-base and libbonobo libgnome now depends on fedora-gnome-theme which pulls in a lot more theme stuff ... The XO has just 1GB flash so we need to keep the size of our build down. I guess some of these extra dependency chains are hard to predict/avoid but it would be good to raise awareness here. It would also be great if people could help us slim our F9 builds back to acceptable sizes, since we are nearing release-candidate phase. Some related links: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7353 http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/update.1-joyride.html - the top section shows all the packages added in joyride (F9) over update1 (F7) http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Distro_Version_Migration_Nastiness (we're forking some packages into the OLPC-3 disttag which have slimmed down dependencies, but obviously forking is not a great option) http://ausil.us/blog/olpc-fedora.html Thanks, Daniel -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
