On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 1:13 AM, Dave Miner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Moinak Ghosh wrote: >> >> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Alan Coopersmith >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Dave Miner wrote: >>>> >>>> As we all know, the live CD has grown quite a bit since the 2008.05 >>>> release. I've spent some time analyzing how we're using the space and >>>> where the growth between build 86 and build 94 occurred, and worked up >>>> some recommendations. >>>> >>>> The analysis data is now posted at: >>>> >>>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/cd_space/ >>>> >>>> The recommendations are posted at: >>>> >>>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/cd_recommendations/ >>>> >>>> I would especially appreciate feedback from the desktop, X, and l10n >>>> teams on the recommendations. We'll work up an actual plan once we've >>>> discussed a bit. >>> >>> >From the X perspective, dropping the screensaver hacks certainly makes >>> sense >>> - they won't even be active in the default configuration, and are pure >>> eye candy. >>> >>> The fontconfig-docs are mostly developer documentation, so if we're not >>> having >>> a full developer environment on the LiveCD, it doesn't make much sense to >>> have >>> them either. (The only ones I'd think are really useful to the end-user >>> are the fonts.conf and fc-* utility man pages.) >>> >>> For FSWxorg-fonts, all the PCF bitmap fonts are currently shipped as >>> *.gz files - we can also ship uncompressed if the LiveCD compression >>> is better than individually gzip'ed files, or as *.bz2 if minimal size >>> on the CD is most important. (In Solaris, we ship them uncompressed, >>> for best speed at runtime, and because the WOS media compresses the >>> entire cpio archive of the package at once, which gets much better >>> compression on our uncompressed files than gzip of each individual >>> file can get - and for many C locale fonts, the difference between a >>> 16kb uncompressed font and a 12kb gzipped font is not any real disk >>> space - for Asian fonts the difference can be huge though). >>> Unfortunately, the *bz2 support is currently not working in Xorg, but >>> I'm working on fixing that. >> >> The segment by segment compression in Lofi is inferior to stream >> compression >> of whole files. Of course this changes a bit if we are using LZMA. >> However even >> in that case LZMA can further reduce *.gz files. So leaving the >> *.gz PCF files as >> is will be better. >> > > Agreed, though using gzip-9 (if you're not already) or getting bz2 working > would help some. Note that we've found that the 7z tool does a better job > of gzip compressing than gzip itself, so that might be checked into. > > Also, Moinak, thanks for volunteering to look at the package structure. > One thing I should have said in the original mail is that I'm targeting > having the plan defined by Sept. 1 in order to have time to implement any > changes needed, so getting some indication of the possibilities here in the > next couple of weeks would be helpful.
I will get you an estimate in the next 2 days. I will also post some suggested font packages on xwin-discuss in a few days. Regards, Moinak. > > Dave > > -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
