So, in preparation for next weeks test day, we've looked at the state of the desktop spin in rawhide. After some complications, Adam managed to produce an iso, which actually boots into runlevel 3. X seems busted. But a console is good enough to do some basic investigation, so I've looked at size issues with this snapshot:
The good news first: We've managed to get rid of the gnome-print stack on the live cd.
The bad news is that we are still considerably overweight. Here is what I found when I compared the snapshot with the F11 desktop spin:
iso size: 691MB -> 716MB packages: 989 -> 1027
The kernel grew 69MB -> 81MB - is this all debugging stuff ?
Some big new pkgs:
webkitgtk 18MB - pulled in by empathy libicu 19MB - pulled in by webkitgtk atlas 12MB - pulled in by pygtk2 via numpy boost 12MB - pulled in by gnote; all of boost gets pulled in here, even though gnote only requires boost-filesystem: bug #496188
So, we'll have to do some dieting to regain iso shape...
Matthias
On 07/02/2009 07:42 AM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
webkitgtk 18MB - pulled in by empathy libicu 19MB - pulled in by webkitgtk atlas 12MB - pulled in by pygtk2 via numpy boost 12MB - pulled in by gnote; all of boost gets pulled in here, even though gnote only requires boost-filesystem: bug #496188
So, we'll have to do some dieting to regain iso shape...
Yes, the boost split was done on my request specifically because I wanted to make sure Gnote can be accommodated comfortably. Upstream has done a new release of Gnote today and I will fix this dependency as part of the rebuild.
Rahul
On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 10:35 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Yes, the boost split was done on my request specifically because I wanted to make sure Gnote can be accommodated comfortably. Upstream has done a new release of Gnote today and I will fix this dependency as part of the rebuild.
The problem is that the boost split was not done properly. I've commented in the bug.
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 22:12 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
webkitgtk 18MB - pulled in by empathy
I think it's rather unfortunate to pull in two web-rendering engines (webkitgtk and gecko), both rather big... What are the deps to xulrunner resp. webkitgtk in the Desktop Live? Should we target for the Desktop Live only one of these?
Martin
Martin Sourada (martin.sourada@gmail.com) said:
webkitgtk 18MB - pulled in by empathy
I think it's rather unfortunate to pull in two web-rendering engines (webkitgtk and gecko), both rather big... What are the deps to xulrunner resp. webkitgtk in the Desktop Live? Should we target for the Desktop Live only one of these?
Well, in general upstreams seem to be pushing towards WebKit for embedding engines. However, I doubt you'll be able to convince firefox to port. :) And we've been over the epiphany/firefox discussion in the past, and elected to stay with firefox.
Bill
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