Hi,
anonym wrote (08 Jan 2011 02:00:29 GMT) :
>>> That makes it annoying to install new software though since one has
>>> to "apt-get update" before.
>>
>> Yep. It will mostly annoy... ourselves I guess. I very frequently need
>> to do so while developing T(A)ILS.
> Therefore it might be a good compromise to only do this for final
> releases and perhaps the later rc:s. I suppose all (?) of us use
> virtual machines for testing, so larger images are not problematic
> at these stages.
If we're enough annoyed by it, I guess we'll implement something like
this :)
> For the record, I ran a simple test (in 0.6.1) using gzip to see how my
> two suggestions turned out:
> * /var/lib/lists reduced massively, from 60 MB to just 16 MB (lots of
> redundancy in there apparently). This makes me question a bit if it's
> worth the additional hassle of having to apt-get update.
???
> * /usr/share/doc reduced from 66 MB to just 51 MB. After all, most large
> files in there are already compressed. For instance, there are 36 MB
> worth of _gzipped_ changelogs, which I must admit I find of doubtful
> practical usage for the end user.
The devel branch now deletes these. -23MB, current image size = 704MB.
Bye,
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