Luis Medinas wrote:
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 14:28 -0700, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
Thanks. I knew there had to be some reason for it, but couldn't
remember what it was off the top of my head. Luckily, this won't be
much of an issue with the next release, since we're switching to Xfce
rather than GNOME to bring the size down even further and to try to
produce a more useful (as in more tools) LiveCD. Of course, the LiveDVD
will have everything on it, as it does now.
Sad to know that our livecd will be xfce based. I think the current live
cd gnome based provides a much better environment than xfce and that is
good for the users who will preform and instalation.
Of course you don't need to build all gnome for the livecd and i bet
there will be enough space for another tools (a graphical package
manager!?).
The main reason that releng has decided to replace gnome with xfce for the
LiveCD is space. We (Kugelfang, wolf31o2, and I) had a hell of a time this last
release getting the x86/amd64 LiveCDs under 700MB, mostly because many packages
(including gnome) grew a bit since the last release. With no differences other
than s:gnome-base/gnome:xfce-base/xfce4:, the resulting ISO dropped ~105MB.
That's a *lot* of breathing room and a *lot* less headaches for the people
building the media.
Unless you can magically pull some space out of your butt, don't complain :P
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