Desktop CDs: Around 60 MB saved on the installed system, 28 MB in binary packages

[Till Kamppeter]

On 08/12/2010 07:04 AM, Martin Pitt wrote:
>> Binary Package             *.deb file       installed system
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> openprinting-ppds               ~4 MB                  ~5 MB
>> openprinting-ppds-extra        ~18 MB                 ~28 MB
>> hplip-data                      ~4 MB                 ~26 MB

[...]

>> Note also that the splitting of openprinting-ppds and
>> openprinting-ppds-extra was done to remove a big part of the
>> space-consuming PPD files from the Desktop CD. Now as the data is
>> vastly compressed I am thinking about merging the PPDs of
>> openprinting-ppds-extra back into openprinting-ppds and doing away
>> with openprinting-ppds-extra. WDYT?
>
> That would add 15 MB after removing 8 MB, so this would still be a net
> loss of 7 MB;

Why does it add 15 MB? openprinting-ppds-extra is also compressed: The 
package is 1.4 MB and the space occupation in an installed system 2 MB.

    Till