Hello, Gábor Boskovits <boskov...@gmail.com> skribis:
> I don't know what we are currently doing to get the installer iso image > sized down, but I caught some discussion yesterday on irc, that the image > is actually very well compressible, and checking the sizes it really is. > > Might that be possible to do something like compressing the root filesystem > image on the iso image, and decompress it from initrd before mounting? Wouldn’t it be complex and memory-intensive? To me the efforts should go into reducing the size of our packages. For example, in ‘core-updates’, guile, glibc, and guix are already noticeably smaller; likewise, the recently-introduced ‘groff-minimal’ allowed us to get rid of Perl in the installation system closure. We should keep working in that direction IMO. Ludo’.
