Re: Any way to make gcompris use less space on the CD?

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Ralf Gesellensetter]
> Hi Petter, I thought it was even more (in my memory, gcompris and
> openoffice took 200 MB each on snofrix CD). I consider that much of
> the space is used for sounds (partly even spoken words in multiple
> languages).

The packages on the CD are compressed.  Perhaps that make the
difference?

> Maybe the maintainer could change dependencies to gcompris-data to
> "recommended".

Well, that would make program less useful, I suspect, so I would
rather try other approaches first.  For example, is the svgalib
dependency really needed when running the program in X?  Or can we
drop some of the sound system dependencies?

> Seems like the data package already contains loads of graphics and 
> music - the only means of reduction I see here is
> (a) try to use better/higher compression for images AND sound

Not sure if that will help, as the package already is compressed with
gzip -9.

> (b) exclude some boards from the core package (modulization)

Suspect that will reduce the usability of gcompris, so perhaps not
wanted either?

It might help to rewrite the code to use libraries shared with KDE and
gnome apps, to be able to share the "load" of these dependencies.

Friendly,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen