[issue897] removal of window managers

[Michael Prokop]

Michael Prokop <mika at grml.org> added the comment:

* Sedat Dilek wrote in grml's BTS on 20101108 / 14:06:

> Thanks ch for providing numbers for the compression-ratio:

> 2.4G        grml_chroot
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 698M Nov  7 20:44 grml_isos/grml_0.0.1.iso

> So, this means a ratio of 3.5 : 1.

> If I summarized correctly it's 2.25MB (other WM removals, w/o fvwm packages).

> 2.250 : 3.5 approx 643 [kB]

> That's not much!

> fvwm2 + fvwm2-crystal would save 5.6MB (squashfs-compressed)

> 20.156,8 : 3.5 = 5.759 [kB]

JFTR: You can't assume a fixed ratio of 3.5, it strongly depends of
the type of files that are involved (text compresses much better
than already compressed files). But removal of fvwm* will definetly
save us quite some space, ACK.

regards,
-mika-

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title: removal of window managers
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