Hi Stefano Zacchiroli <z...@debian.org> writes: > Ansgar has been experimenting with .deb sizes to make the packages > needed for a minimal desktop installation fit in the first CD. It looks > like that's doable by switching to xz compression for the involved > binaries. Would you grant freeze exceptions for packages that only > changes that?
Based on Sledge's list of packages for the CD images, I prepared a list of savings-per-binary: For GNOME, we can save up to 137 MB changing compression up to task-gnome-desktop (108 MB by changing only 100 out of 969 binaries). Or up to 252 MB up to task-laptop (183 MB changing only 100 binaries). For KDE, it is 136 MB up to task-kde-desktop (106 MB for 100 binaries) or 197 MB up to task-amharic (150 MB changing only 100 binaries). Please note that these numbers include packages from the base system. The real gains should be a bit less. I'm not sure how much savings we need to fit things on CD1, maybe Sledge can fill this? Also I'm a bit unsure why Sledge had a bit higher numbers on -devel earlier[1]. Please take a look at the files in [1] for details. They list binary packages, saving for switching this package (in kB) and the sum of savings switching all packages so far (in kB). Ansgar [1] <http://people.debian.org/~ansgar/wheezy-cd-with-xz/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ipdym8si....@marvin.43-1.org
