Re: Bringing down Java packages in size

2011-06-04 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le samedi 04 juin 2011 à 10:46 +1000, Chris Jones a écrit : > But whilst installing the Java web-browser plugin, I observed that > it's not its dependancies that suck up the size but rather the > physical java packages themselves. And I just don't understand what > makes Java packages so bi

Re: Bringing down Java packages in size

2011-06-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 10:46:37 +1000, Chris Jones wrote: > It seems to me that as a general observation, package sizes are either > stable or coming down in size. And even the total size of the Fedora > Live CD has dropped significantly. The last item is due to using XZ compression with s

Bringing down Java packages in size

2011-06-03 Thread Chris Jones
It seems to me that as a general observation, package sizes are either stable or coming down in size. And even the total size of the Fedora Live CD has dropped significantly. My example: I installed Fedora 15 a couple of days ago. After fully updating, I couldn't help but notice the amount o