Re: New Programs for Hardy?

On Nov 14, 2007 2:55 PM, Bryan Haskins
<kingofallhearts999gmail.com> wrote:

> Back to the original point... I would totally say Miro
would be a good
> candidate for Main.. It's not very large.. BUT it does
have a java
> dependency...

Curious; I note that Java doesn't appear as an explicit
dependency/recommendation/suggestion
e.g. http://packages.ubunt
u.com/miro or the PCF 1.0 version
...and yet it does use it (as per the crash ref I listed)

> because of this I can almost guarantee it will not see
the
> Install Disc for some time to come, even though Iced
Tea is sure a movement,
> we're working with 700mb here, compression only does so
much.

I'm not too familiar with the details of the squashfs
compression
used; how close would it be?  Is there a way to increase
compression
at the expense of processing time?  Could some of the
Windows FOSS be
pared down to make room for it?

CK

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On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 01:15:28AM -0600, Conrad Knauer
wrote:
> On Nov 14, 2007 2:55 PM, Bryan Haskins
<kingofallhearts999gmail.com> wrote:
> > because of this I can almost guarantee it will not
see the
> > Install Disc for some time to come, even though
Iced Tea is sure a movement,
> > we're working with 700mb here, compression only
does so much.
> 
> I'm not too familiar with the details of the squashfs
compression
> used; how close would it be?  Is there a way to
increase compression
> at the expense of processing time?  Could some of the
Windows FOSS be
> pared down to make room for it?

We are always looking for more ways to reduce CD size so
that we can fit
more things on the CD, although squashfs-lzma is not on the
table at the
moment since, while squashfs is likely to be merged upstream
soon,
squashfs-lzma apparently isn't. That said, I believe the
next version of
squashfs uses larger block sizes to achieve better
compression.

The Windows FOSS has already been pared down many times, and
I think is
probably now near its minimum.

There are various other targets of opportunity, such as
duplicate files
and unnecessary content in the English language packs, that
we'll be
looking into as well.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                      
[cjwatsonubuntu.com]

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