Re: Why is the DVD image so large?

Den 2025-11-01 kl. 17:19, skrev Sulev-Madis Silber:
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> On November 1, 2025 4:06:48 PM GMT+02:00, Dennis Clarke<dclarke@blastwave.org> wrote:
>> Why is the DVD image so large?  Can something/anything be trimmed out?
> it's kind of funny
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> because cperciva was just asked to fill up the apparant "empty" wasted space seen in beta3 dvd
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> which he did! even overachieved the task slightly, apparently?
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> so in order to not generate full war we would need to either cut back, remove or abadon actual dvd size in some images
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> or maybe make image remotely or locally customizable
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> or provide separate images (tiny, medium, huge) which are just offline repos
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> or finally start shipping images with various de's which users ask but which can't be easily done as disks don't self-expand. and then you need to archive it all too
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> or something else
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> p.s.: btw, i was not able to install ports from b3 dvd for some reason, i didn't check why and completed the test setup from remote

HI

Yes I started this .....
I notices that B2 did not include the DVD: ./packages/repo directory and 
contents.
this was fixed in B3. but B3 was Void of KDE packages. B4 now have KDE 
packages but is 4.8 GB ,
I propose to abandon DVD 4.7 GB format and that future DVD-ISO packages 
use DVD-DL 8.5 GB discs.

Regards

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Lars Tunkrans
Oracle SPARC/Solaris System Administrator
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