Re: Iso image size

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Gábor Boskovits <address@hidden> 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 filesystem
> image on the iso image, and decompress it from initrd before mounting?

Wouldn’t it be complex and memory-intensive?

To me the efforts should go into reducing the size of our packages.  For
example, in ‘core-updates’, guile, glibc, and guix are already
noticeably smaller; likewise, the recently-introduced ‘groff-minimal’
allowed us to get rid of Perl in the installation system closure.  We
should keep working in that direction IMO.

Ludo’.