On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 09:19:23AM -0500, Fred Smith wrote: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 08:40:23AM +0000, Julio Martinez wrote: > > > > >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 > > Is there a decent browser you could include instead of Firefox that > is enough smaller to get below 700 MB? possibly Vivaldi ? Epiphany or midori might be worth looking into as well. Pierre