On 05/05/2011 12:59 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
Am 05.05.2011 17:50, schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:
the size of core-dual iso has been over 700MB for a while.
the last one is 738MB.
See http://releng.archlinux.org/isos/2011.04.30/
what would be the best way to fix this? different archiso2dual
parameters? different compression somewhere? revised packagelist?
moving some packages out of core? [is anyone aware of noticeable size
increases of the core repo or core packages?]
I will change the default -c from gzip to xz in fews minutes.
(There is no autodetection)
Do we have xz-compressed squashfs already?
yes.
These images can still be written to DVD or USB, so they are not
entirely useless.
Sure.
Personally, I always use DVD-R even for smaller things in these days,
bah! usb-keys.
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