[Sugar-devel] SoaS at FOSDEM

[Carol Farlow Lerche]

Removing printing support doesn't sound like a good idea for something that
is going to be used in US schools and homes.

2009/1/31 Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian at when.com>

> 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
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