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Samuli Suominen wrote: |
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> On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:28:26 -0700 |
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> Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> We disabled it to try to get the size of the x86/amd64 LiveCDs down. |
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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 |
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>> LiveDVD will have everything on it, as it does now. |
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> Glad to hear that. Then maybe we could add some stages to livecd? |
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> Replace evolution with something usable like claws-mail to do so. |
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The saved space (~105MB with my test build right after 2007.0) would only allow |
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for one stage tarball (the i686 2007.0 stage3 was 103MB, for example), and then |
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we'd be right back where we were with keeping the ISO under 700MB. |
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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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