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Re: Iso image size
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Iso image size |
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Mon, 11 Dec 2017 10:23:56 +0100 |
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Hello,
Gábor Boskovits <address@hidden> skribis:
> I don't know what we are currently doing to get the installer iso image
> sized down, but I caught some discussion yesterday on irc, that the image
> is actually very well compressible, and checking the sizes it really is.
>
> Might that be possible to do something like compressing the root filesystem
> image on the iso image, and decompress it from initrd before mounting?
Wouldn’t it be complex and memory-intensive?
To me the efforts should go into reducing the size of our packages. For
example, in ‘core-updates’, guile, glibc, and guix are already
noticeably smaller; likewise, the recently-introduced ‘groff-minimal’
allowed us to get rid of Perl in the installation system closure. We
should keep working in that direction IMO.
Ludo’.