Dave Miner wrote:
> As we all know, the live CD has grown quite a bit since the 2008.05
> release. I've spent some time analyzing how we're using the space and
> where the growth between build 86 and build 94 occurred, and worked up
> some recommendations.
>
> The analysis data is now posted at:
>
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/cd_space/
>
> The recommendations are posted at:
>
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/cd_recommendations/
>
> I would especially appreciate feedback from the desktop, X, and l10n
> teams on the recommendations. We'll work up an actual plan once we've
> discussed a bit.
>From the X perspective, dropping the screensaver hacks certainly makes sense
- they won't even be active in the default configuration, and are pure eye
candy.
The fontconfig-docs are mostly developer documentation, so if we're not having
a full developer environment on the LiveCD, it doesn't make much sense to have
them either. (The only ones I'd think are really useful to the end-user
are the fonts.conf and fc-* utility man pages.)
For FSWxorg-fonts, all the PCF bitmap fonts are currently shipped as
*.gz files - we can also ship uncompressed if the LiveCD compression
is better than individually gzip'ed files, or as *.bz2 if minimal size
on the CD is most important. (In Solaris, we ship them uncompressed,
for best speed at runtime, and because the WOS media compresses the
entire cpio archive of the package at once, which gets much better
compression on our uncompressed files than gzip of each individual
file can get - and for many C locale fonts, the difference between a
16kb uncompressed font and a 12kb gzipped font is not any real disk
space - for Asian fonts the difference can be huge though).
Unfortunately, the *bz2 support is currently not working in Xorg, but
I'm working on fixing that.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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