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> To all developers,
Hi,
> 1) Gimp : repo size=9.7M : proposed=6.3MB
> 2) Abiword : size=3.6M : proposed=2.6MB
> 3) Gnumeric: size=3.2M : proposed=2.2MB
> 4) Cups: size=3.4M : proposed=2.6MB
> 5) Ghostscript: size=12.2M : proposed=5.9MB
> 6) FFmpeg: size=5.7M : proposed=1.4MB
> 7) Mplayer: size=3.4M : proposed=1.7MB
> 8) Xine-lib: size=3.8M : proposed=2.0MB
> 9) Xine-ui: size=1.1M : proposed=560KB
> 10) Kino: size=7.7M : proposed=900KB
Great job.
> 5) Ghostscript: This was compiled with initialization on; so the size
> was so big. Just by disabling compilation inits we can reduce the
> size. This used to be default till 8.56 series. Most distributions
> still use the same. Furthermore, CMAPs in current Ghostscript package
> are not GPLed, so all other distributions provide it as a separate
> package. They are usually useful for printing Asian (Japanese,
> Chinese and Korean) characters. So we may split it into an optional
> "SUGGESTED" dependency.
We should remove CMAPs and have a get-cmaps. By the way, do
you want to maintains ghostscript and cups ?
> 6) Some help docs or sample files run in several MBs e.g. kino. I
> have put them as optional "SUGGESTED" and as a seprate kino-doc pkg.
> Xine-ui has a sample ".avi" file.
Perfect and say I did a studio flavor some time ago, it would be 10 Mb
smaller now...
> 7) Gnumeric: python module for python programming in Gnumeric can be
> disabled (also perl)
+1 --disable
> If maintainers of these packages are fine with my suggestions, I would
> commit these into wok after 2.0 release.
Commit...
> Thanks and looking forward to 2.0 release,
Me to. We have rebuild all the ~1400 packages these last days. But
firefox dont build anymore, if we dont fix that for 2.0, we are going
to use the official precompiled version from Mozilla (with the official
logo) = +1Mb on the core
Any help is welcome.
PS: If you want to be able to cook on the build host check build log
for firefox (and others), please send me a user:passwd off list so I
can create an account on Tank.
> Rohit
- Christophe
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