On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 14:09:12 +0530, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> The Spin SIG meeting was held today and this has a couple of impacts on >> the games spin. >> >> For the alpha release it was decided to keep the iso's under 4 GiB. This >> will be looked at again before the beta. I took a look at package sizes >> and I either needed to get rid of one large game or many other non-game >> packages. And at this point removing one game seems like a better option. >> The game I have selected to remove for the alpha (pending my spin compose >> test coming in under 4 GiB) is openarena. Of the large games it seemed >> to be the one that was similar to other games and hence most expendable. > > Openarena is one of the few truly free and open source 3D shooters on > relatively recent engine. It is also quite popular. Which ones are you > comparing it too? I needed to drop about 160 MB from the iso. I got a list of the installed rpms and sorted them by size. Everything above about 10 or 20 MB was a game or a dependency of a game. Trying to remove stuff that wasn't a game but pulled in as part of the desktop was going to require removing at least 10 packages and whatever depended on them. Most likely it would have ended up being many smaller packages. Of the top games in size it appeared to be less unique than some others. I also had the option to remove several smaller games, but that also seemed like a bad option. I don't have the sorted package list handy, but I'll look at sending out the top part of the list so people can comment on it. I think a better approach is convincing the Spins SIG that the benefit of being able to go to 4.7 GB as more important than the cost of going over 4 GiB. _______________________________________________ Fedora-games-list mailing list Fedora-games-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-games-list
