[Mageia-dev] base system size for next beta1

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 17 March 2011 21:14, Anne nicolas <ennael1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there
>
> We've had quite a lot of comments, proved or not, about base system
> size. Looks like it's growing much too fast. So one job for next beta
> would be to investigate on this:
>
> - check real size
> - check deps
> - check rpmsrate for isos
> ...

We can redo what I did back at Mandriva:
See https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=53376
> Summary of basesystems:
> 10.2:   80Mb
> 2005:   80Mb
> 2006.0: 101Mb
> 2007.0: 125Mb
> 2007.1: 108Mb
> 2008.0: 113MB
> 2008.1: 125MB
> 2009.0: 136Mb
> 2009.1: 153Mb
> cooker(2009/02): 437Mb
> cooker(2009/02) w/o suggests:179Mb

Before pixel left, he & me fixed bogus suggests that ending having
gnome stuff in basesystem
when not using --no-suggests.
Then pascal terjan added no suggest support in minimal install in drakx.

But we need to break again bad dependancies