Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (102 mails)

[Dirk Mueller <dmueller@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday, 3. September 2007, Juergen Weigert wrote:

> Does anybody know if the licenses package had a space
> saving effect on the media?

Well, the GPL roughly takes 3kb of space per rpm on the media. out of a 
default KDE installation, exactly 256 packages ship a copy of GPL, eating 
roughly 768kb of space on the media. 

the licenses packages is 432kb in size. So assuming that all those 256 
packages would be fixed (noone fixes them currently, not even all the yast2 
packages which contain COPYING twice are fixed even though I filed a 
bugreport a couple of months ago), we could save 336kb of space. 

thats not an awful lot, given that we have packages on the CD where we could 
save 5MB with a blink of an eye. 


Greetings,
Dirk

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