Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
We need to be much stricter on size increases! In Fedora 9 (when the
xz
compression for live images was introduced, which made it smaller than
Fedora 7 or 8), the x86_64 KDE Spin was 729272320 bytes.
I have to correct myself: Fedora 9 was not where xz was introduced. The xz
compression was introduced in Fedora 15. At that point, the x86_64 KDE Spin
was 725614592 bytes (with more applications on it than in Fedora 9), and
that was also the size in Fedora 17 in May 2012.
In Fedora 38 Branched, it is now 2418429952 bytes.
So, in only 11 years, the live image size has grown by a factor of almost
exactly 3⅓ (the exact ratio starts with: 3.3329…)!
Kevin Kofler