On 25 November 2015 at 07:42, Fabian Arrotin arrfab@centos.org wrote:
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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.
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.
I am expecting that DVD and liveUSB are probably the places to look at now. If there needs to be a livecdrom is should just be the bare minimals needed for command line work. Most of the hardware which is cdrom only is going to struggle with current desktop features so it probably isn't worth the continued effort.
It builds/runs fine, can be installed too (like before), but I'd like your opinion about this.
Cheers,
Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org gpg key: 56BEC54E | twitter: @arrfab -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux)
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