Am Mittwoch, den 09.05.2012, 11:57 -0400 schrieb Adam Jackson:
On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 11:45 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 13:35 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > The feature page lists some of the background and statistics. It also
> > > lists some options in how to implement this, which all have various
> > > different pros and cons. I'd like to hear what peoples opinions on
these
> > > are.
> >
> > There is no room left on the KDE live image for installing any sort of
> > debugging information by default.
>
> We could easily drop some of less-than-half-complete translations to
> make room for a bit of minidebuginfo. Last time I looked, translations,
> fonts, etc made up upwards of 25% of the livecd. Or we could just drop
> the obsolescent cdrom size limitation...
I know I've said this before, but: we should break the CD size barrier
precisely so people can't burn things to CDs. If you must burn to
optical media, do yourself a favor and burn a DVD, the reduced seek time
is entirely worth it.
1G fits on both the smallest MiniDVD format and most extant USB sticks.
Let's do it already.
As an ambassador and former EMEA media wrangler I tend to agree.
Currently both EMEA and NA only do dual layer DVDs, both for live and
the installer. EMEA did separate installer vor i386 and x86_64, but
after NA had no problems with exclusively providing dual layer, we
decided to do the same.
This being said I don't care how big we grow as long as we can still fit
all 4 desktops (GNOME, KDE, Xfce, LXDE) in 2 arches each on one multi
desktop live image. A dual layer DVD has a maximum capacity of 8.5 GB,
so fitting 8 x 1 GB is not a problem.
We might have to drop Sugar, but if only GNOME and KDE go for 1 GB and
Xfce and LXDE still target 700 MB or less, we should even be able to
keep it.
This being said I am +1 for 1 GB, but please note that I only speak for
myself or the NA and EMEA ambassadors.
Kind regards,
Christoph