[CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 liveCD survey

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 25 noiembrie 2015 16:42:43 EET, Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org> wrote:
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>Hi,
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>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.
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>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.
>
I'd say make it as big as needed, stop claiming compatibility with old CDs (even 700 MB which is anyway the most used format for CD-R) BUT make sure it can boot from an USB stick. Nowadays people rarely use CDs, USB sticks are by far more popular.

   wolfy