[indiana-discuss] Space considerations for the Live CD

[Matt.Ingenthron at Sun.COM]

Shawn Walker wrote:
>
> What about the Java runtime? Does it include documentation? Could that
> be packaged separately to save some space?
>
>   

I just looked. Demo apps, man pages, etc. are all in different packages. 
Even 64-bit support is in a different package. That package is pretty 
light as it is and it looks like the only heavy parts are a bunch of 
images/fonts/gnome integration. The big one of course is rt.jar, which 
after install is:
$ ls -lh /usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.6.0/jre/lib/rt.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 46M Sep 25 03:06 
/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.6.0/jre/lib/rt.jar

In theory, the Java kernel project over in OpenJDK should deliver a 
smaller, download-on-demand JRE. I don't know if they're targeting that 
functionality to all platforms though. Through that, they're breaking up 
rt.jar.

Ironically, the current Live CD has SUNWjss: Network Security Services 
for Java (JSS), which is consuming a precious 1.3M even though it's 
useless without a JRE. :)

- Matt

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