On 25 noiembrie 2015 16:42:43 EET, Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org> wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >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. > 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