On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:33:18AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:40:10AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > There's *no* reason to think that GNOME or KDE are going to get back > > below the 1 CD limit at the next Debian stable release. > > I was under the impression that GNOME3 fit onto one CD with recent Fedora > releases, but I am having trouble verifying that. (Fedora 16 Desktop Edition > has at least some of GNOME3 + things like LibreOffice in a LiveCD > configuration, > with the CD image clocking in at 605M, so with headroom!) > > So it's not impossible.
Yes. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XZRpmPayloads They use xz for all RPMs since Fedora 12 (late 2009). Let's say the idea of switching debs to xz is not that novel :p -- “This is gonna be as easy as cheating on an ethics exam!” -Cerise Brightmoon
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