[Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 LiveCD contents...

[Marek Laane]

2012/4/29 Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org>

> Hi,
>
> So RC (and final) are getting closer, as usual the livecds are
> problematic to get nice contents, while staying within the 700M limit
>
> Current RC build got me this:
>
> 668M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-GNOME-Africa-India-i586-CD.iso
> 693M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-GNOME-Africa-India-x86_64-CD.iso
>
> 703M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-GNOME-Asia-Noindia-i586-CD.iso
> 728M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-GNOME-Asia-Noindia-x86_64-CD.iso
>
> 684M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-GNOME-Europe1-Americas-i586-CD.iso
> 709M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-GNOME-Europe1-Americas-x86_64-CD.iso
>
> 697M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-GNOME-Europe2-i586-CD.iso
> 722M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-GNOME-Europe2-x86_64-CD.iso
>
> 662M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-KDE4-Africa-India-i586-CD.iso
> 686M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-KDE4-Africa-India-x86_64-CD.iso
>
> 710M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-KDE4-Asia-Noindia-i586-CD.iso
> 734M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-KDE4-Asia-Noindia-x86_64-CD.iso
>
> 690M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-KDE4-Europe1-Americas-i586-CD.iso
> 714M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-KDE4-Europe1-Americas-x86_64-CD.iso
>
> 720M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-KDE4-Europe2-i586-CD.iso
> 744M    Mageia-2-rc-LiveCD-KDE4-Europe2-x86_64-CD.iso
>
>
> So atleast every cd with size > 700M need to loose some stuff...
>
> So please help out with suggestions...
>
>
> You can check out current contents here:
>
> http://tmb.mine.nu/Mageia/2/Mageia-2-rc-LiveCDs/
>
> Files are:
> *.langs      - Supported languages on the CD
> *.lst        - installed package list, sorted alphabetically
> *.lst.full   - installed packages list, sorted by size
>
>
> Now, remember that the livecds are squashfs compressed images,
> so in order to drop ~20M on a cd, I need to drop ~30M-100M of
> rpms depending on content...
>
> Also if you find something missing that relly _must_ be on the
> cds (not just nice to have)... please comment on that too
>
> --
> Thomas
>

Tried RC and found something what maybe shouldn't be there - KHelpcenter -
and not just being there but quite prominently in the menu also
(Documentation->Help only entry). As Live CD doesn't include help
documentation KHC is mostly unuseful, you only get that such and such
module isn't there. Sure, there is man and info pages but I rather doubt
anyone is interested to use KHC for reading man or info. And more weirdness
- there still is only peace KDE documentation you can read in KHC, namely
documentation for Kipi plugins. Maybe excluding also Kipi plugins'
documentation helps to save precious space? And I'd propose if not
excluding KHV, then at least to remove it from main menu as it leads to
erroneous impression there really is some helpful documentation ...
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