On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:33:18AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:40:10AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> > There's *no* reason to think that GNOME or KDE are going to get back
> > below the 1 CD limit at the next Debian stable release.
>
> I was under the impression that GNOME3 fit onto one CD with recent Fedora
> releases, but I am having trouble verifying that. (Fedora 16 Desktop Edition
> has at least some of GNOME3 + things like LibreOffice in a LiveCD configuration,
> with the CD image clocking in at 605M, so with headroom!)
>
> So it's not impossible.
Yes.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XZRpmPayloads
They use xz for all RPMs since Fedora 12 (late 2009).
Let's say the idea of switching debs to xz is not that novel :p
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-Cerise Brightmoon
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