CentOS - Dec 2005 - Huge OO.org packages installed by default

I was just wondering if anyone here knows why the OO.org packages on 
RHEL/Centos are so huge.
Eg. On Mandriva 2006:
40834529 OpenOffice.org
113064600 OpenOffice.org-libs
20124669 OpenOffice.org-help-en
19976941 OpenOffice.org-l10n-en

= ~185MB

On Centos 4:
683298379 openoffice.org-i18n
124072694 openoffice.org
111894560 openoffice.org-libs

= ~876MB!!

When I say 'installed by default' I mean that I selected the
'Office'
package group during the install of both OSes and didn't make any custom 
package selections. Both OSes have OO.org 1.1 working fine, I'm just 
wondering why costs me nearly 5 times as much disk space on RHEL/Centos 
than it does on another distro?

-- 
Tim Edwards

Were did you get your packages from (what version?):

On my mirror in /centos/4.2/os/SRPMS:
181772014 Sep  1 01:04 openoffice.org-1.1.2-28.6.0.EL4.src.rpm
and in /centos/4.2/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS:
122007463 Aug 23 12:10 openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.2-28.6.0.EL4.i386.rpm
  35739789 Aug 23 12:10 openoffice.org-1.1.2-28.6.0.EL4.i386.rpm
  40267738 Aug 23 12:11 openoffice.org-libs-1.1.2-28.6.0.EL4.i386.rpm
    105134 Aug 23 12:10 openoffice.org-kde-1.1.2-28.6.0.EL4.i386.rpm
total 195MB or thereabouts

Cheers,
MaZe.

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Tim Edwards wrote:
> I was just wondering if anyone here knows why the OO.org packages on 
> RHEL/Centos are so huge.
> Eg. On Mandriva 2006:
> 40834529 OpenOffice.org
> 113064600 OpenOffice.org-libs
> 20124669 OpenOffice.org-help-en
> 19976941 OpenOffice.org-l10n-en
>
> = ~185MB
>
> On Centos 4:
> 683298379 openoffice.org-i18n
> 124072694 openoffice.org
> 111894560 openoffice.org-libs
>
> = ~876MB!!
>
> When I say 'installed by default' I mean that I selected the
'Office' package
> group during the install of both OSes and didn't make any custom
package
> selections. Both OSes have OO.org 1.1 working fine, I'm just wondering
why
> costs me nearly 5 times as much disk space on RHEL/Centos than it does on 
> another distro?
>
>

On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 12:39 +1100, Tim Edwards wrote:
> I was just wondering if anyone here knows why the OO.org packages on 
> RHEL/Centos are so huge.
> Eg. On Mandriva 2006:
> 40834529 OpenOffice.org
> 113064600 OpenOffice.org-libs
> 20124669 OpenOffice.org-help-en
> 19976941 OpenOffice.org-l10n-en
> 
> = ~185MB
> 
> On Centos 4:
> 683298379 openoffice.org-i18n
> 124072694 openoffice.org
> 111894560 openoffice.org-libs
> 
> = ~876MB!!
> 
> When I say 'installed by default' I mean that I selected the
'Office'
> package group during the install of both OSes and didn't make any
custom
> package selections. Both OSes have OO.org 1.1 working fine, I'm just 
> wondering why costs me nearly 5 times as much disk space on RHEL/Centos 
> than it does on another distro?
> 
You must be looking at expanded size and not RPM size.

I think it is because there is one international version that contains
support for all languages.  Looks like the installed mandriva packages
are english only.

I checked the RH size and it is comparable.
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Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>
> 
> You must be looking at expanded size and not RPM size.
> 
> I think it is because there is one international version that contains
> support for all languages.  Looks like the installed mandriva packages
> are english only.
> 
> I checked the RH size and it is comparable.
> 
Yeah that looks like it. Why-oh-why couldn't RH do the smart thing and 
split it out into language packages like Mandriva? I'll have to remember 
to set my partition size when installing RH distros to 7 or 10GB, not 5.


-- 
Tim Edwards