Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (471 mails)

["M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <zznmeb@xxxxxxxxx>]

A lot of the packages in the "Technical Documentation" pattern use
parts of the LaTeX toolchain. You might have to remove that whole
pattern. I use LyX and its dependencies, but not much of the other
stuff.

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As texlive was updated vom 2007 to 2008 in factory, it also grew from
> 159MB to 266MB and that made the milestone2 DVDs exceed the limits you
> can burn on DVD.
>
> I made a quick hack and removed qt4 documentation, which is also impressive
> 90MB. Werner says that texlive upstream doesn't see the problem and doesn't
> provide a good way to split (it's own distribution is a DVD or 2 CDs). And
> there is our problem: With every release it eats more and more of the openSUSE
> DVDs and I'm afraid it exceeded a sane limit - as it's far from mainstream
> I would remove it.
>
> I know how many use texlive and I don't talk about dropping it out of the
> distribution, but I can't hold it on DVD unless I drop several other packages.
>
> To give you an impression let me give you a list of packages on build112 DVD
> sorted by size:
>
> 266M noarch/texlive-2008-5.1.noarch.rpm
>  83M noarch/libqt4-devel-doc-data-4.5.1-1.1.noarch.rpm
>  72M noarch/kernel-source-2.6.30-4.1.noarch.rpm
>  32M x86_64/koffice-illustration-1.6.3-214.26.x86_64.rpm
>  27M x86_64/java-1_6_0-openjdk-1.6.0.0_b16-1.2.x86_64.rpm
>  26M noarch/opensuse-manual_de-11.1-2.21.noarch.rpm
>  25M x86_64/kdebase3-3.5.10-22.12.x86_64.rpm
>  25M noarch/efont-unicode-0.4.2-215.37.noarch.rpm
>  25M noarch/OpenOffice_org-templates-presentation-layouts-3.0-1.78.noarch.rpm
>  24M noarch/xorg-x11-fonts-7.4-1.79.noarch.rpm
>  23M x86_64/kdebase4-workspace-4.2.85-1.3.x86_64.rpm
>  22M noarch/CID-keyed-fonts-MOE-20021114-339.17.noarch.rpm
>  21M noarch/opensuse-manual_en-11.1-29.17.noarch.rpm
>  20M x86_64/frozen-bubble-2.2.0rc1-1.46.x86_64.rpm
>  20M noarch/xemacs-packages-20070427-155.76.noarch.rpm
>  19M noarch/OpenOffice_org-icon-themes-3.1.0.2-1.1.noarch.rpm
>  19M x86_64/samba-client-3.3.4-1.1.x86_64.rpm
>  18M noarch/OpenOffice_org-help-ja-3.1.0.2-1.1.noarch.rpm
>  18M noarch/kde4-l10n-sv-doc-4.2.85-1.1.noarch.rpm
>
> I now removed the second largest package so it fits for the moment, but I
> don't feel that's justified. But perhaps I'm wrong. So let's discuss what
> the DVDs should be optimized for.
>
> Greetings, Stephan
> P.S. If you want to discuss packages that are currently not on DVD and should
> be there, feel free to do so if you start your post with "XX should go" as
> long as XX is part of the above list.
>
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