Overall: How to reduce ISO size

[star-buck]

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[llelectronics]

Here a list of packages and their sizes on 19.01 core currently:
list_packages_core_1901.txt

[llelectronics]

From that list one can see libicu60 we can get rid off. Nodejs is apparently installing it as dependency. However something might recommend nodejs I am not sure currently which package though. So it removes nodejs and some other packages. All of them not necessary for Core imho

Same goes for freepats

[zgrimshell]

apt rdeps nodejs should help here

[llelectronics]

You mean apt rdepends nodejs. Yeah not really it gives a long long list. Anyway I added some of the packages to the be removed by live-build. See: netrunner-core/live-build@1bebdd3

[zgrimshell]

yes, nodejs does have a long list but that is how you do the check (you could run one file against other to check what they have in common)

[zgrimshell]

checked the list, good that nodejs is going out from default :)

[hsitter]

Here a list of packages and their sizes on 19.01 core currently:
list_packages_core_1901.txt

I think you need to get a list of compressed package sizes. Given the squashfs of the ISO is hopefully compressed (@shadeslayer is it?) the uncompressed size of packages means nothing. Case in point: libgl1-mesa-dri compressed should be like 6mib

[shadeslayer]

It's compressed.

[llelectronics]

Removing some of the packages like stated before resulted in a slight improvement:
-rw-r--r-- 1 leszek leszek 1739718656 Jan 16 18:07 netrunner-core-20190116.1638-amd64.hybrid.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 leszek leszek 1677721600 Jan 17 14:12 netrunner-core-20190117.1201-amd64.hybrid.iso