[Sugar-devel] SoaS at FOSDEM

[Sebastian Dziallas]

Marco Pesenti Gritti 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)?
> 
> 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

Well, it's mainly as small as it is due to removals regarding locals and 
drivers, but if you don't mind, I could also quickly draft up a 
kickstart file including GNOME and Sugar, wihch is not limited to the XO.

--Sebastian