Hi,
While working on the next 7.1511 Live media, I discovered that the size for the actual CentOS 7 LiveCD would be more than 700MB.
It's due to some packages being now bigger and bigger, also due to the big Gnome 3.8 -> 3.14 rebase. One obvious package I can remove from the packages manifest (which itself is consuming more and more space) is Firefox.
If I remove it from the packages manifest (only for LiveCD, it will obviously stay for the LiveGnome and LiveKDE DVD iso images), it's then back to 650 MB, so that would mean that one would still be able to burn it on a CD.
But the real question is then : does that even make sense ? for each release, we're now fighting with disk space constraints, and I'm each time removing packages from that LiveCD image. If we remove Firefox itself, that would mean that such LiveCD would be useful just for people willing to "test" CentOS on their hardware, but that would be a basic Gnome desktop. It builds/runs fine, can be installed too (like before), but I'd like your opinion about this.
Hello Fabian I have used a couple of times the Live CD to introduce CentOS to new users which allows them test how it feels. Removing Firefox would be a big loss and do those "demos" would be impossible, well, in those cases probably we'd have to go to a DVD or USB image. But I see your point of view coming from a Developers background and it's probably where the CD is still mostly in use
I hope it helps
Julio