shrinking the desktop DVD image to 1.5GB

Phillip Susi psusi at cfl.rr.com
Sat Jun 18 01:35:36 UTC 2011


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On 06/14/2011 04:39 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
> The hack you describe is already pretty much what we do in ubiquity.
> See https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/dvd-performance-hacks.
> 
> In the case where the package has a prerm, we determined that this hack
> was unsafe (or at least not provably safe).  It is often possible to
> speed things up without needing to change ubiquity by converting
> packages to avoid prerms (e.g. using triggers).

I guess the lang packs have not been so converted yet?  Because they
sure do take a long time to purge.
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