I have discussed the following with Julien and we both feel that we are blocked upstream from being able to actually reliably have disc-sized images, so there's really no point in trying to quibble about this, especially given the benefit to speed.
I certainly think in an ideal world given our goals, we would offer disc-sized images, but without core Ubuntu elements having a similar philosophy, it's just hard to imagine this will ever really be possible. It's a miracle we've gone as far as we have had with them. Besides, the most important thing is efficient use of the system resources. For those with machines that cannot use DVDs or USBs to boot, it would be suggested to install using the [alternative installation methods][1], with the mini.iso being the most reliable option. That said, any bug reports regarding the size of images will be marked "Won't Fix." [1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/AdvancedMethods#Alternative_installers On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 4:29 AM, Iain Lane <la...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Dear flavour developers, > > For a long time, we've been stripping .pyc files from live images in order > to > save space. This is a speed-vs-space tradeoff, as non-byte-compiled Python > code > on the live CDs will run slower. > > Ubiquity (the installer) has code to regenerate these files when you > install > the system, so the installed system does not suffer from this tradeoff > having > been made. > > Towards the end of the 16.10 cycle, we reviewed our position[0] to see if > it > still made sense in an era where most of our images are less space > constrained. > On an Ubuntu Desktop live CD, the saving is approximately 19 MB. > Unfortunately > I don't have good numbers for the speed gain, but it is noticable on slow > systems. We consider this an acceptable cost for faster app startup, and > so for > Zesty we have inverted this default and made .pyc stripping opt-in instead > of > opt-out. > > This is an announcement to make flavours aware. If you wish to opt back in, > please reply to this email or raise a merge proposal against > lp:livecd-rootfs. > > Cheers, > > -- > Iain Lane [ i...@orangesquash.org.uk ] > Debian Developer [ la...@debian.org ] > Ubuntu Developer [ la...@ubuntu.com ] > > [0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/livecd-rootfs/+bug/1627190 > > -- > Ubuntu-release mailing list > ubuntu-rele...@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release > > -- @wxl | polka.bike C563 CAC5 8BE1 2F22 A49D 68F6 8B57 A48B C4F2 051A
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