Peter Korn wrote: > Hi Dave, > >> Hi Peter, >> >>> I'm not sufficiently familiar with how packages are put together to >>> give you a solid estimate, but... >>> Dasher installs into /usr/bin/, /usr/share/gnome/help, >>> /usr/share/omf, and /usr/share. The language support is in >>> /usr/share/dasher (all of the "alphabet* and "training*" files). >>> Collecting all of this together, we have an installed size of ~22MB >>> for Dasher. If we strip out the non-English "alphabet*" and >>> "training*" files, and a couple other things that are obviously not >>> needed for English use, we drop to an installed size of 3.2MB. >>> File-by-file gzipped, this minimal collection of files is 975k. 931k >>> if you gzip the tar file. If you can point me to the list of 14 >>> primary languages, I can refine the estimate. But it looks like we >>> should be able to trim most of the 8MB of a Dasher for the primary >>> languages LiveCD. Also - what compression technologies do we use for >>> these two LiveCDs? >>> >> It's actually 12 languages, somehow I had the number wrong. The list is: >> >> >> 1. Chinese - Simplified >> 2. Chinese - Traditional >> 3. English >> 4. French >> 5. German >> 6. Italian >> 7. Japanese >> 8. Korean >> 9. Portuguese - Brazil >> 10. Russian >> 11. Spanish >> 12. Swedish >> >> We're using gzip (default level 6) for the primary CD. The global one >> uses lzma. (7z command does this on OpenSolaris). > > OK. Dasher support for some of those languages is significant in size. > Using file-level gzip, we're looking at 4.8MB. Tar-gzip 4.7MB. Support > for many of those languages includes training files that, even when > compressed, are several hundred KB each; Spanish is particularly weighty > at 457KB gzipped. > > So I return to my original request - let us please at least include > blind access in the 12-language LiveCD. >
Thanks for looking into this further. So, just to be clear, you'd be requesting that we at most remove dasher and gok? Dave _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
