On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 13:48 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
I'm still a bit baffled that a 3.5 MB increase on a 700MB live
image
is considered a complete showstopper. That's one git package, for example;
I would hope that creative dependency trimming can find that space.
(Or reorganization of boot images, for example.)
There's a modest amount of low-hanging fruit if people really cared
about image size. For example, here's a way to shrink the
(uncompressed) live filesystem by 30M:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812975#c4
I do find the concern for difficult install scenarios to be noble, but I
would tend to class that as a different problem from producing a useful
live image that also happens to be installable. But clearly the
objection here is about "doing more work" more than "changing the image
size".
- ajax