[Mageia-dev] size of iso dvds (unbloated installer stage 1)

[Juergen Harms]

I just joined this list - therefore top-posting rather than replying.

Seeing the discussion on space on isos, I checked how much space 
documentation files occupy on the alpha 3 iso: looks like there is quite 
some potential for space saving. Some examples of bigger doc files

gawk-doc         0.9 Mb
lilo-doc         0.8 Mb
javadoc-1.6.0    11  Mb
javadoc-1.7.0    12  Mb
python-docs       4  Mb
qt4-doc         126  Mb
and so on

Some space can easily be gained by removing doc packages of low interest 
(e.g. lilo, only one java version), much more could be gained by sorting 
the doc according to some criteria (my suggestion: highest priority = 
doc for non-advanced users who want to get a running out-of-the-box 
system with basic doc; second priority = doc for advanced users/users 
who do development and might have bandwidth problems; low priority: 
things like kernel-doc which are normally used by people who anyhow have 
made an effort to have bandwidth in support of fetching the code they 
are working on, and who can easily fetch the doc packages from the core 
repositories).

A more radical approach might be to simply create an additional "doc 
dvd" - move all doc packages from the present iso there, with the 
benefit to have lots of place for offering some of the more popuplar doc 
packages on a dvd - which presently must be fetched from the repository 
(probably attractive for users with bandwidth problems). That would 
immediately free about 180 Mb of the alpha iso (and avoid - well, 
postpone - the headache which programme packages can be kept on the iso, 
and which not).

Juergen