--- On Wed, 5/25/11, Peter Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Peter Robinson <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: F14-build size > To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" <[email protected]> > Cc: "OLPC Devel" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 4:06 AM > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:50 AM, > Yioryos Asprobounitis > <[email protected]> > wrote: > > There is some discussion about the usability of F14 > builds in relation to their size [1] > > F14 builds are _really big_ for the 1GB XO-1 NAND > leaving very little space for the user. If a few videos or > wiki is installed or even try olpc-update you may run out of > space. > > > > I was wondering if unused locales could be removed (a > la localepurge) at first boot or after language selection, > modifying also accordingly `%_install_langs'. > > This should save considerable space and make F14 > builds more usable for the 1 million XO-1s out there. > > Of course deployments could make heir own builds and > modify them accordingly, but I'm sure that many places may > not have this luxury. > > > > I understand that we are in a feature freeze, but this > could certainly be considered a bug, and a major one. > > Otherwise I think it certainly merits some > consideration for 11.2.1 > > Its a known issue that is being worked upon, IMO its more > likely to > hit 11.3.0. Its partially a dependency bloat which needs to > be worked > upon upstream. The dependency bloat is certainly _the_ issue. But I would think that besides locales mentioned before, things like /lib/firmware/* (but usb8388.bin) and /usr/lib/dri/* could be removed from XO-1 images, without any problem. Between firmware, dri and additional locales, the available space could be increase by almost 50% _today_. This could even be done at first boot with a small additional script, so no major changes in os builder would be needed. > > Peter > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
