Paul Sladen
November 15th, 2004, 06:25 PM
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 12:43:47AM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> > > consider adding the mozilla-firefox-locale-* to the desktop seed ?
> > On i386, this would add 2M to the CD and 5M to the desktop install, so I
> > don't see a problem with the size (unlike with openoffice.org).
> If this type of thing (lots of locales) becomes an issue, I've just done a
> test which has got the above packages down by 50%. (Mozilla)
I've spent the afternoon playing further. By using the following:
* combining multiple locales
* zero-compressing internal zipfiles (eg. template files)
* reordering the tar (eg. like files in each locale are adjacent)
* bzip2 (eg. can handle 900kB aggregations)
I've managed to get a 33% saving across the first 11 languages [af..es].
Which is a drop from 30MB to 20MB. Extrapolated across all 23 languages,
that _may_ represent a drop from 73MB to ~49MB.
I was hoping for 50% but, on well... :-(
Having said that, the more I think about it. When an average Windows luser
buys a new machine, they are primarily interested in two things:
* The Office Suite
* The Operating System
Given the elevated status of these two items, maybe it's not so extreme to
give them a disproportion amount of space (as long as it is /restrained/ as
much as possible...). Writeup here:
http://wiki.ubuntulinux.org/HoaryHedgehog/OpenOffice/L10nCompression
-Paul
(BTW, what's the deal with the 200MB 'openoffice-amd64' package)...
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Is there no safe way to travel? Nottingham, GB
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 12:43:47AM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> > > consider adding the mozilla-firefox-locale-* to the desktop seed ?
> > On i386, this would add 2M to the CD and 5M to the desktop install, so I
> > don't see a problem with the size (unlike with openoffice.org).
> If this type of thing (lots of locales) becomes an issue, I've just done a
> test which has got the above packages down by 50%. (Mozilla)
I've spent the afternoon playing further. By using the following:
* combining multiple locales
* zero-compressing internal zipfiles (eg. template files)
* reordering the tar (eg. like files in each locale are adjacent)
* bzip2 (eg. can handle 900kB aggregations)
I've managed to get a 33% saving across the first 11 languages [af..es].
Which is a drop from 30MB to 20MB. Extrapolated across all 23 languages,
that _may_ represent a drop from 73MB to ~49MB.
I was hoping for 50% but, on well... :-(
Having said that, the more I think about it. When an average Windows luser
buys a new machine, they are primarily interested in two things:
* The Office Suite
* The Operating System
Given the elevated status of these two items, maybe it's not so extreme to
give them a disproportion amount of space (as long as it is /restrained/ as
much as possible...). Writeup here:
http://wiki.ubuntulinux.org/HoaryHedgehog/OpenOffice/L10nCompression
-Paul
(BTW, what's the deal with the 200MB 'openoffice-amd64' package)...
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Is there no safe way to travel? Nottingham, GB