On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Loui Chang <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu 05 May 2011 17:50 +0200, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: >> 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?] > > Perhaps it's time to deprecate the CD-R space requirement? > >
That sounds reasonable to me, I've been putting net installs on dvds for a while now :P If you want both core arch install cds, you could just burn 2 cds instead of 1. Less convenient but shouldn't affect a lot, if any users. Just my 2 cents. -Thomas Dziedzic
