Hi, anonym wrote (08 Jan 2011 02:00:29 GMT) : >>> That makes it annoying to install new software though since one has >>> to "apt-get update" before. >> >> Yep. It will mostly annoy... ourselves I guess. I very frequently need >> to do so while developing T(A)ILS.
> Therefore it might be a good compromise to only do this for final > releases and perhaps the later rc:s. I suppose all (?) of us use > virtual machines for testing, so larger images are not problematic > at these stages. If we're enough annoyed by it, I guess we'll implement something like this :) > For the record, I ran a simple test (in 0.6.1) using gzip to see how my > two suggestions turned out: > * /var/lib/lists reduced massively, from 60 MB to just 16 MB (lots of > redundancy in there apparently). This makes me question a bit if it's > worth the additional hassle of having to apt-get update. ??? > * /usr/share/doc reduced from 66 MB to just 51 MB. After all, most large > files in there are already compressed. For instance, there are 36 MB > worth of _gzipped_ changelogs, which I must admit I find of doubtful > practical usage for the end user. The devel branch now deletes these. -23MB, current image size = 704MB. Bye, -- intrigeri <[email protected]> | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc | Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not | die of starvation would entail the risk of dying of boredom ? _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://boum.org/mailman/listinfo/tails-dev
