On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 09:00:32PM -0600, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >Hi, > >Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> writes: >> Back in May I warned about CD sizes[1] for the Wheezy release, >> pointing out that CD#1 isn't big enough any more to provide usable >> Gnome or KDE installations. There was some discussion about what to do >> about that (change compression to xz, switch to the lighter desktops >> by default, require more than one CD, recommend DVDs instead), [...] > >I tried recompressing all packages in wheezy with xz. The total size >for all amd64+all packages was reduced from 42GB to 33 GB (about 20%). >A per-package listing is available from [1] > > [1] <http://people.debian.org/~ansgar/wheezy-20120706-with-xz.txt.gz> > >Would this be enough to make GNOME and/or KDE installable from a single >CD image?
Using rough calculation: * For GNOME, it takes about 185MB out of the space used to get up to task-gnome-desktop. Instead of being ~90MB into CD#2, that's ~100MB inside CD#1. * For KDE, it takes about 170MB out of the space used to get up to task-kde-desktop. Instead of being ~70MB into CD#2, that's ~100MB inside CD#1. So, yes - looks like xz will make a difference here for the wheezy release, for amd64 at least. It's enough that we'd probably even have space for the installation manual and release notes to fit \o/. i386 is still worse off (2 kernels instead of 1), but I don't have the exact figures to hand. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120707034735.gu4...@einval.com
