Waste in the piplay 0.8 beta 9 image file

Hillibo

I had a look at the image file and was wondering why it is so big.

I found a couple of things that can be deleted:
600MB /home/pi/pimame/.git/
455MB WolframEngine in /opt
167MB /home/pi/pimame/emulators/mednafen - src directory!
115MB /usr/share/doc/ - not needed for production
57MB /opt/sonic-pi - live coding engine
57MB /var/cache/apt/
35MB /var/lib/apt/lists/
33MB /home/pi/pimame/pimame-menu/themes/slide/background.psd
32MB /opt/vc/src

That's more than 1.5GB of savings right there. Pretty easy.

And I wasn't sure about these:

182MB /usr/lib/jvm/ (oracle java 8), 20MB source.zip there
115MB /home/pi/pimame/emulators/scummvm very big! perhaps "dists"
directory can be cleaned? there are a lot of .cpp files there...
76MB /usr/share/icons/gnome
32MB nuoveXT2
24MB webkit-gtk
20MB qt-webkit
32MB /usr/lib/gcc
4MB /opt/minecraft-pi - needs mouse (?)

mholgatem

hey, this is much appreciated. I'll make sure Shea takes a look at this. Some of that is necessary though. The biggest offender (home/pi/pimame/.git/) is used for versioning control. So when you update, it will keep your changes to things like themes, controls, and any custom code you may introduce.

Hillibo

I don't see why the .git stuff has to be in the SD card image you download?
After the first update perhaps, but not right from the start.

mholgatem

The reason that we include it in the SD card image is because it doesn't change the image size, but if we didn't include it, then your first update would have to download an additional 600MB, which is pretty huge since most people just use a cheap b/g wireless dongle for their raspberry pi.

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