Hey people, Following up on this again...
Back in May I warned about CD sizes[1] for the Wheezy release, pointing out that CD#1 isn't big enough any more to provide usable Gnome or KDE installations. There was some discussion about what to do about that (change compression to xz, switch to the lighter desktops by default, require more than one CD, recommend DVDs instead), then Joey pointed out that the existing setup in debian-cd wasn't working correctly with existing tasks since we switched to task packages. I fixed that a while ago and pointed to the results [2], but they're still not encouraging. I've just checked on the builds from this week's run on amd64 and updated the sorted package lists. What I'm seeing now is: Gnome ===== The last package on amd64 CD#1 is gnome-packagekit-data. task-desktop fits on CD#1, but task-gnome-desktop is ~110 packages into CD#2. gnome-shell-common doesn't even make CD#1, which means the desktop will be a little... sparse. The full sorted package list is at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/tmp/new-tasks/gnome-cd.list.gz KDE === The last package on amd64 CD#1 is libkontactinterface4. task-desktop fits on CD#1, but task-kde-desktop is about 60 packages into (what would be) CD#2. The full sorted package list is at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/tmp/new-tasks/kde-cd.list.gz LIGHT (lxde/xfce) ===== The last package on amd64 CD#1 is libmng1. The core tasks fit fine (task-desktop, task-lxde-desktop, task-xfce-desktop), well within the the space of CD#1. Full sorted list at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/tmp/new-tasks/light-cd.list.gz I'm going to talk about this more at the debian-cd BoF on Monday (17:00 local time, 23:00 UTC). In the mean time, please feel free to ask questions... [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2012/05/msg00025.html [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2012/06/msg00010.html -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120706211004.ga14...@einval.com
