Normally I don't care for space, harddisks are huge these times. But I also have a netbook with a small 4GB SSD inside. Before yesterday I had Mandriva 2010.1 on that disk, KDE with all kinds of things, The Gimp, OpenOffice, etc. It fitted in 2.9 GB and I used a 16GB usb key for data storage.
Now I installed Mageia and I was surprised - I went to "Custom" in the DE selection, marked all the usual things in the package group selection and the system told me I do not have enough space - it wanted to use 3.6GB! I had to uncheck a lot of things I usually had on that little bugger to be able to install Mageia. Then I started updating - again, in the middle of the process the system complained about missing space. Now I am stripping the installation of most things (all the plasma-applets, digikam, libreoffice, etc.) to be able to use the system. And the best of all: after removing all those applications it tells me that I can use "auto-orphans" - I scanned the list of "orphaned" packages and I find such things like cups-common, gcc, binutils, cmake, etc. And I still have 3.1GB used space! What makes Mageia so large compared to current Mandriva? -- wobo
