On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com wrote:
The F19 DVD is currently *way* over size. (i686: 417MB, x86_64: 311MB). That's almost certainly more than can be fixed by trimming around the edges; we need to remove actual functionality that's on the DVD.
Options include:
- One/some of the desktops
F19 DVD currently includes
- GNOME
- KDE
- XFCE
- LXDE
- Sugar
- MATE (new in F19)
- Cinnamon (new in F19)
- The web server environment
Contains web server and web server runtimes (PHP, JBoss, Mongo, perl, python, rails)
- The developer & content creator workstation
Contains the web server stuff above, Eclipse, developer tools, designer tools, Fedora packaging tools, and so on.
Opinions?
Bill
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In regards to MATE + Cinnamon:
MATE + Cinnamon fit on F18 x86_64 DVD but not the i686 DVD. The i686 and x86_64 have different sizes (one reason was due to including the PAE and non PAE kernels).
That being said Cinnamon IS broken in F19 but it is only 2 packages on top of Gnome 3.. cinnamon and muffin. We expect to have it working by release and upstream is working on a fix, in fact I made some progress last night and have Cinnamon 2D mode working.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=920320
Lots of other distros are dropping Cinnamon because of this. Let's not be THAT distro.
Also after spending a lot of time the last few days trying to compose the MATE liveCD a lot of unneeded dependencies were being pulled.
I think we should look at package dependencies. It seems that lots of unnecessary packages are being pulled when composing media.
Just my experience over the last few days.
Dan