Fedora won't fit on a DVD anymore [LWN.net]

Fedora won't fit on a DVD anymore

Posted Nov 13, 2007 20:51 UTC (Tue) by dowdle (subscriber, #659)
In reply to: Red Hat's Fedora 8 hope: An all-purpose Linux foundation (c|net) by epa
Parent article: Red Hat's Fedora 8 hope: An all-purpose Linux foundation (c|net)

$ du -sh Packages/
11G     Packages/

That's just the i386 packages dir in the Everything directory.  The DVD they have is really a
small subset of that.

$ ls -1 Packages/ | wc -l
8440

From the Packaged dir on the DVD:

$ ls -1 Packages/ | wc -l
1983

That's quite a difference, eh?

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