[indiana-discuss] Space considerations for the Live CD

[ludo]

David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote:
> While working on the resync of the Indiana repository to build 79
> (which we hope to push to pkg.opensolaris.org soon), I've begun to look
> at the new components that have come in since build 75a to see if any
> are suitable candidates for the Live CD.  Here are the additions since
> the initial prototype:
>
> ...

> Some other obvious candidates that weren't available in time for the
> October prototype are but which are now redistributable are:
>
> NVDAgraphics        NVIDIA Graphics System Software            14.65M
> SUNWj6rt        JDK 6.0 Runtime Env. (1.6.0_03)            30.04M
>
> As for where we are space wise, I believe the current CD is at 659 MB.
> I've attached a list of the packages on the CD and again, an estimate
> of how much each is contributing.  I don't see any obvious candidates
> for removal except for SUNWsmba which was pulled in as a dependency of
> SUNWgnome-vfs.  I believe we can get back ~18M of space by refactoring
> SUNWsmba and putting libsmbclient.so.1 into a separate package.  So,
> given that the JVM is ~30M I would suggest continuing to leave that out
> but include NVDAgraphics at this time.
Hi,

I know I am a Java addict, but when I see we use 80Mb for gimp
(SUNWgnome-img-editor The Gimp image editor 80M) that I used once and 
then decided to forget about it, I would prefer a jdk environment (30Mb) 
(many developers/apps are relying on it) to an image editor (80Mb).


Ludo
>
> Thoughts?
>
> dsc
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