[Sugar-devel] SoaS at FOSDEM

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 11:49, Marco Pesenti Gritti
<marcopg at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
>> Latest image and improvements (git head with some fixes) are listed in this
>> post http://erikos.sweettimez.de/?p=332
>>
>> It is even a bit smaller :) Now, we really need to make this as small as
>> possible. I wonder how we can best do this. I mean I can get a list of deps
>> of Sugar and then add all the rest needed to start it - for example taking
>> @gnome-desktop out of the kickstart did not boot anymore. Any pointers to
>> infos on how to best trim down are welcome.
>
> Why do you think size is very important for Soas (real question)?

If we want wide testing and people need to download 800MB each time,
many people (me included) will have a hard time getting those bits.

But setting up a rsync server may help with that.

Regards,

Tomeu

> Caroline requested to have GNOME on the images so that people can
> switch to it if they want. I think Sebastian is doing some work to
> reduce size for the XO. If size is not a blocker we could just
> leverage his work...
>
> Marco
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