On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 01:13:35PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
Has anyone looked at the possibility of having a shared CD or two
between the x86_64 and i386 installs?
There's 412300KiB of noarch packages which are present in both x86_64
and i386, and 436108KiB of i[36]86 packages in the x86_64 tree.
and you can probably double this number if some packages would cast
out their noarch stuff disguised as arch-dependend.
For example almost all of tetex is noarch in essence (the whole texmf
tree), which already adds up to 150-200M.
Splitting out the texmf tree is a bit painful, it requires two
src.rpms.
If a package ordering can be found which allows a bunch of those to
go
onto a CD which is shared between x86_64 and i386 installations, we get
to lose a CD out of the set without running around like headless
chickens trying to excise useful packages to make the i386 tree smaller.
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