> 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