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Subject: Re: Iso image size
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 10:23:56 +0100
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Hello,

G=C3=A1bor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> skribis:

> I don't know what we are currently doing to get the installer iso image
> sized down, but I caught some discussion yesterday on irc, that the image
> is actually very well compressible, and checking the sizes it really is.
>
> Might that be possible to do something like compressing the root filesyst=
em
> image on the iso image, and decompress it from initrd before mounting?

Wouldn=E2=80=99t it be complex and memory-intensive?

To me the efforts should go into reducing the size of our packages.  For
example, in =E2=80=98core-updates=E2=80=99, guile, glibc, and guix are alre=
ady
noticeably smaller; likewise, the recently-introduced =E2=80=98groff-minima=
l=E2=80=99
allowed us to get rid of Perl in the installation system closure.  We
should keep working in that direction IMO.

Ludo=E2=80=99.