On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 5:55 PM Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote: > So, I propose: > reduce install time > reduce image size > reduce compose time
+1 Sounds very reasonable. On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 1:22 PM Kamil Paral <kpa...@redhat.com> wrote: > ... > Exactly what Kamil wrote. Few percent grow is negligible, but install time reduction is huge. On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 4:44 PM Kevin Kofler <kevin.kof...@chello.at> wrote: > The areas where hundreds of installations are performed from an image are > hardly the common case, and those installations should really consider > composing their own images with exactly the package set that they need > (including site packages that Fedora cannot ship), images which they can > then compress with a faster-to-decompress algorithm. I think that we > should > optimize for the standard user who installs exactly once. > It is pretty common for us in Fedora QA (well, I'm quite biased in this case). And no, we cannot compose our images, we have to test the exact same images that will be shipped. We cannot test custom images and pretend the results are going to be the same for official images. And finally, those few percent can make the difference between fitting on a > given fixed-size physical media or not. The original change proposal of > trying to minimize the size might actually make at least the smaller spins > fit on a DVD again. > All current Fedora spins [1] are well within the DVD size limit (4.7GB), even if the images grow a few percent. This is also true for optical boot release blocking images [2][3][4]. [1] https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/31/Spins/x86_64/iso/ [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/32/ReleaseBlocking [3] https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/31/Everything/x86_64/iso/ [4] https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/31/Workstation/x86_64/iso/
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