ISO size breakdown? ISO diff?

[Jonas Norlander]

2010/1/20 Amedee Van Gasse <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be>:
> On 18-01-10 09:53, giovanni_re wrote:
>> Is there an breakdown analysis by size of the major categories of the
>> files on the ISOs?
>>
>> Like, every component that is>1% of the size?  Like, Kernel, GUI,
>> Applications,&  breakdown for some of the major applications, like OO,
>> FF, whatever?
>>
>> If it doesn't exist, could someone do that analysis quickly? Can it be
>> done easily?  Could you do it? if so, TIA :)
>
> Why do you want to know that?
>
>> Also, is it possible to diff the different ISOs, so that if you have one
>> already,&  want one other, you don't have to dl all 700MB, just the
>> diff?  Like, between 9.10 Ub&  KUb for x86?
>
> No.

I think you are wrong. There are programs that can diff binary files,
for example xdelta. Is this not what he ask for? I haven't used xdelta
and have no clue how it will work on ISO files.

/ Jonas