I discovered this when building Debian Edu CDs based on lenny. I tried to disable the NORECOMMENDS to get all the packages apt would install included.
Today, when building with the NORECOMMENDS set to false, all the optional recommends are included on the CD. I believe it need to be changed to only include the first of the recommended packages. For example, when adding vim to the image, the dependency vim-common is included, and it recommends "vim | vim-gnome | vim-gtk | vim-lesstif | vim-nox | vim-tiny". This in turn pulls in all the vim implementations, making the vim package occupy 54 MiB of the CD because vim-gnome pull in a lot of gnome packages and vim-lesstif bull in lesstif. I would rather debian-cd in this case only pulled in the first recommended package, vim (which happen to be included already). It would make the build process more predictable, and would also include the package that apt would prefer to install when vim-common is installed. Any comments? Any idea how to change debian-cd to make it behave this way? Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
