Le samedi 20 janvier 2018 03:07:32 UTC+1, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki a écrit :
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> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 11:11:02PM +0000, Unman wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 08:32:50PM +0100, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I'm building what hopefully will be R4.0-rc4 and I have two
> > > reflections:
> > > 
> > > 1. After upgrading templates to fedora-26 and debian-9, there is no way
> > > the installation image will fit on DVD. Right now it takes 4908384256
> > > bytes. We probably could try to cut it down by eliminating even more
> > > packages from templates, but I think there is no much non-essential
> > > packages left there. For example we no longer ship vim in debian-9.
> > > Right now I see two options:
> > >  - abandon the goal of fitting the image on DVD (I'd go for this)
> > >  - exclude some template from default installation...
> >
> > I would , of course, favour a Debian system as default.
> 
> But until we migrate dom0 to something else, we need to ship fedora
> template too, because it works better for downloading dom0 updates (the
> same tool resolve dependencies, yum version in Debian is much older, and
> there is no dnf at all).
> 
> > However, it would be useful if you could give the relative template
> > sizes on the current build.
> 
> Sure[1][2]:
>  
>  fedora-26: 1643586746 bytes
>  debian-9:   722214642 bytes
>  whonix-gw:  504932958 bytes
>  whonix-ws:  705727858 bytes
> 
> fedora-26, as default template for AppVMs, contains default user
> applications, like Firefox, Thunderbird. Shipping a _desktop_ operating
> system without web browser isn't going to work...
> 
> But maybe there is a chance to trim Fedora template slightly...
> Frédéric, do you see something that could easily be done there?

Sure, I will review today the packages and groups list to see if I can reduce 
the template size.

> > As far as trimming the templates, there is some scope for this, but one
> > of the problems is that people want what THEY like. Look at issue 1781 for
> > a great example of this.
> > 
> > Cant dom0 be trimmed further?
> 
> That's a good question. List of packages, sorted by size is here:
> https://gist.github.com/marmarek/cb9fa3d82e3aba6cd15c78854b184f10
> 
> For example I see two fonts packages (adobe-source-han-*) using together
> over 70MB.
> 
> > I am strongly in favour of an image that fits on a DVD - would there be
> > any reason not to offer Fedora and Debian as alternatives if the size
> > issue proves insuperable?
> 
> Providing two images means some more work, more testing etc, so I'd like
> to avoid that. But if there will no better option, that could be done.
> 
> [1] https://yum.qubes-os.org/r4.0/templates-itl/rpm/
> [2] https://yum.qubes-os.org/r4.0/templates-community/rpm/
> 
> - -- 
> Best Regards,
> Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
> Invisible Things Lab
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