On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 12:39 +1100, Tim Edwards wrote: > I was just wondering if anyone here knows why the OO.org packages on > RHEL/Centos are so huge. > Eg. On Mandriva 2006: > 40834529 OpenOffice.org > 113064600 OpenOffice.org-libs > 20124669 OpenOffice.org-help-en > 19976941 OpenOffice.org-l10n-en > > = ~185MB > > On Centos 4: > 683298379 openoffice.org-i18n > 124072694 openoffice.org > 111894560 openoffice.org-libs > > = ~876MB!! > > When I say 'installed by default' I mean that I selected the 'Office' > package group during the install of both OSes and didn't make any custom > package selections. Both OSes have OO.org 1.1 working fine, I'm just > wondering why costs me nearly 5 times as much disk space on RHEL/Centos > than it does on another distro? > You must be looking at expanded size and not RPM size. I think it is because there is one international version that contains support for all languages. Looks like the installed mandriva packages are english only. I checked the RH size and it is comparable. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051213/0615a3ec/attachment-0005.sig>