nonamedotc <nonamedotc <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Could someone please tell me why the install DVD for F17 is smaller
> than
> that for earlier releases. The install DVD is 2.3 GB whereas the
> one for
> F16, for example, is 3.5 GB. Thanks.
AFAIK no one has completely figured this out yet. I noticed that the
libreoffice-langpack-* packages are on the F16 DVD but not later, and
based on
the average size and number of these that seems to account for about
half of the
size difference. Here are links to package lists (sorted by size in
1K-blocks)
for the i386 F16 and F17 Alpha TC1 DVDs (the size reduction happened
at Alpha
TC1).
http://robatino.fedorapeople.org/sizes_Fedora-16-i386-DVD.txt
http://robatino.fedorapeople.org/sizes_Fedora-17-Alpha.TC1-i386-DVD.txt
A bit of Python-fu computed following:
List of added packages by size:
http://fpaste.org/CM9U/
by name:
http://fpaste.org/F2v7/
Total 40967 4kB blocks ~ 160 MB.
List of removed packages by size:
http://fpaste.org/rokW/
by name:
http://fpaste.org/iYGp/
Total 322960 4kB blocks ~ 1261 MB.
That more or less matches, doesn't it?
Most space was saved by stripping translations (KDE, libreoffice), aspell and some fonts.
I guess the translations will be downloaded during/after installation... or not?