Why I can't recommend Arch or Gentoo

[Al Sten-Clanton]

Thanks for that info.

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On 09/23/2015 11:00 AM, Kyle wrote:
> The first thing that caused Arch Linux to grow significantly was the
> migration from two single-architecture images, one for x86 and the
> other for x86_64, to a single dual-architecture image that can boot on
> any of the two machine types. This happened I believe in 2012, and
> caused the CD to grow from a bit over 200MB to well over 450MB.
> TalkingArch, because of the brltty package, grew even more, as many
> dependencies are added even with the minimal package we have. Chris was
> still working on TalkingArch at that time. By the time Kelly and I took
> over the project, the size had grown to nearly 550MB, and has now
> topped 700MB. This is largely due to upgrades in the base packages,
> which usually add just a little size over time as code complexity
> increases. However, the small size increases double on Arch, because
> every time one package grows, it actually grows twice on the same iso,
> once for i686 and again for x86_64. TalkingArch, like Arch Linux
> itself, stores two of nearly everything, due to the dual-architecture
> format, which is why even 1MB of growth in a single package is nearly
> 2MB on the iso. TalkingArch was simply the first to break the 700MB
> size limitation of a CD, because it has more packages. Hope this helps
> explain things.
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