[Foresight-devel] Re: audit the size of foresight

2011-01-26 Thread Jesse Zhang
On 01/26/2011 11:38 PM, Michael K. Johnson wrote: > So to get the real size of the installed packages on a particular > filesystem, you need to get the troves, with files (but without > file contents), only single-count hardlink groups, and then use > an algorithm that takes into account particular

[Foresight-devel] Re: audit the size of foresight

2011-01-26 Thread Jesse Zhang
On 01/26/2011 11:38 PM, Michael K. Johnson wrote: > So to get the real size of the installed packages on a particular > filesystem, you need to get the troves, with files (but without > file contents), only single-count hardlink groups, and then use > an algorithm that takes into account particular

[Foresight-devel] Re: audit the size of foresight

2011-01-26 Thread Michael K. Johnson
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 05:26:32PM +0100, Martin Bähr wrote: > i think the current info is already sufficient to help find the low > hanging fruits which will help bring down the size of the install. I'm saying that the ordering could be substantially different when you calculate sizes differently

[Foresight-devel] Re: audit the size of foresight

2011-01-26 Thread Martin Bähr
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:38:01AM -0500, Michael K. Johnson wrote: > So to get the real size of the installed packages on a particular > filesystem, you need to get the troves, with files (but without > file contents), only single-count hardlink groups, and then use > an algorithm that takes into

[Foresight-devel] Re: audit the size of foresight

2011-01-26 Thread Michael K. Johnson
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 08:58:24PM +0800, Jesse Zhang wrote: > For example on the x86_64 system, glibc accounts for 12% of the whole > system. And from big to small, mono>faenza-icon-theme>sun-jdk>kernel. ... > See it for yourself. On the second sheet, the size of :locale troves are > shown. Comp

[Foresight-devel] Re: audit the size of foresight

2011-01-26 Thread Jesse Zhang
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Og Maciel wrote: > However, I'd like to make this a post-2.5 release topic to be > discussed perhaps by a newer Council? Sure, that's fine to me! :) > I'd like to also discuss about > our default applications and see if we can make the end user > experience somet

[Foresight-devel] Re: audit the size of foresight

2011-01-26 Thread Og Maciel
Hi Jesse, First off, thank you so much for doing this! I have dreamed of the day we can shrink the size of our ISO for quite some time, and even though progress has been made on this front, I still find it pretty hefty. However, I'd like to make this a post-2.5 release topic to be discussed perhap