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Luis Medinas wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 14:28 -0700, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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>> Thanks. I knew there had to be some reason for it, but couldn't |
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>> remember what it was off the top of my head. Luckily, this won't be |
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>> much of an issue with the next release, since we're switching to Xfce |
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>> rather than GNOME to bring the size down even further and to try to |
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>> produce a more useful (as in more tools) LiveCD. Of course, the LiveDVD |
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>> will have everything on it, as it does now. |
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> Sad to know that our livecd will be xfce based. I think the current live |
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> cd gnome based provides a much better environment than xfce and that is |
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> good for the users who will preform and instalation. |
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> Of course you don't need to build all gnome for the livecd and i bet |
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> there will be enough space for another tools (a graphical package |
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> manager!?). |
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The main reason that releng has decided to replace gnome with xfce for the |
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LiveCD is space. We (Kugelfang, wolf31o2, and I) had a hell of a time this last |
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release getting the x86/amd64 LiveCDs under 700MB, mostly because many packages |
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(including gnome) grew a bit since the last release. With no differences other |
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than s:gnome-base/gnome:xfce-base/xfce4:, the resulting ISO dropped ~105MB. |
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That's a *lot* of breathing room and a *lot* less headaches for the people |
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building the media. |
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Unless you can magically pull some space out of your butt, don't complain :P |
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Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator |
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