[Sugar-devel] SoaS at FOSDEM

[Sebastian Dziallas]

Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
> Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Caroline Meeks <solutiongrove at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Yes yum install would work
>> So Simon, if you want to get rid of GNOME and add the yum bits to the
>> instructions about switching to GNOME on the Soas page, please go
>> ahead :)
>>
>> Marco
> 
> Well, how does working on reducing the size of the Fedora Sugar Spin 
> sound to you? It has currently something a size of around 450 MB, but 
> I'm pretty sure that we can get towards 300 MB. Picking the low hanging 
> fruits there might be an idea...
> 
> I'll see what I can do with some tweaks.
> 
> --Sebastian

Replying to myself here ;)

I just checked it out and figured that the size of 450 MB just occurred 
because of the use of Rawhide. When switching to F10, it's 40 MB smaller.

Then I went on and removed stuff from the fedora-live-base.ks like 
dial-up-, font-, and printing-support (I'll need to check whether doing 
a - at dial-up works with the most recent pykickstart build - see also here 
[1]).

To sum it up, this reduced the size again and it should be now somewhere 
around 350 MB. Cleaning up /usr/share with regard to the locales would 
give us another 100 MB free, though.

--Sebastian

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428835