Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On 20.02.2018 00:32, Simon Lees wrote:
The problem is if we are treating all desktops equally (well equally within 2 tiers) which we are trying to why should LXDE go on the dvd over LXQt? why should xfce go in over Cinnamon, Mate or enlightenment?
This is a valid argument, however, let's look at the technical aspects.
LXDE: 20MB on the DVD (hard to count since its recommends from the patterns are not named in a consistent way for easy grepping) XFCE: 30MB on the DVD MATE: around 120MB on the dvd (already not counting ubuntu-matte-*) Cinnamon: hard to tell because there is not even a pattern, but it looks like it's about the same size as XFCE or LXDE LXQT: about 15MB Enlightenment: you can tell this better than my rough guess would be able to
Note that all but MATE use some XFCE tools to do stuff, so XFCE is even cheaper if we decide to include the others ;-)
Ok, interesting math. At the same time that defeats the argument of the slow internet connection somehow, doesn't it? Rather cheap to pull those alternatives from the online repos since all the shared components are already on the DVD. So again the question remains, who exactly are we targeting with the DVD? If "people with slow internet connection" why of all the options would they care about desktop environments? Chromium for example is bigger than most of the desktops you listed. Having it initially may reduce download size for online updates as deltas would be based on the original package. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.com/ SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org