[3848] in Release_7.7_team
Size of Linux release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat May 17 01:49:42 2003
Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 01:49:39 -0400
Message-Id: <200305170549.h4H5nd6h005778@error-messages.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
It looks like the 9.2 Linux release is a bit bloated; we install about
4GB of stuff. It would be nice if we could avoid orphaning everyone
with 4GB disks, even though I think our cluster hardware baselines at
14GB.
Here's a list of the biggest packages:
169410724 kernel-source
165431477 athena-tetex
127333009 athena-evolution
100436356 openoffice-libs
82080117 kdelibs-devel
76953365 athena-openmotif
74177170 athena-emacs
69005001 xemacs
64410686 athena-mozilla
57434184 athena-perl
55166532 Omni
54674111 tetex-doc
52996302 koffice
52218743 athena-intlfonts
44894275 xemacs-el
41584682 athena-gnome-libs
41033503 glibc-common
40622759 athena-nmh
39850478 athena-bonobo
36744769 XFree86
36448206 athena-krb5
36365432 athena-bind
35710650 kdebase
35423442 perl
31244106 emacs
30853745 qt-devel
30827562 kernel
This list suggests the following options:
* Save 161MB by punting kernel-source. We'll have to install it in
the wash environment and on any machine people want to build
athena-openafs on.
* Save 157MB by moving athena-tetex into a locker. I've wanted to
do this for a while (well, more accurately, I've wanted someone
else to do this for a while), but it's a fair amount of effort.
* Save 95MB by punting openoffice-libs. Nothing requires it.
* Save 73MB by punting athena-openmotif and using the native mwm.
(There are good reasons to do this anyway; our openmotif build
isn't working so well at the moment. We do have to arrange to
configure the native mwm appropriately, though.)
* Save 115MB by punting xemacs and the four packages which depend on
it (apel-xemacs, xemacs-el, mew-xemacs, and wl-xemacs). We don't
have xemacs in the 9.1 release.
* Save 101MB by removing the four KDE development packages
(kdelibs-devel, kdevelop, kdebindings-devel, kdenetwork-devel).
* Save 361MB by removing the rest of KDE.
The last five options together would save 745MB and require no
substantial effort, so that's my recommendation if I don't hear any
opinions.
