Ok thanks, I'll work through my different lists now to see where I can minimise this.
On 28 June 2013 18:57, Ben Armstrong <sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> wrote: > On 27/06/13 10:54 PM, Michael . wrote: > > By your reply it seems the udebs are required regardless > > of what installer is used. Is this correct? > > Yes, and the live installer has less overhead than the standard > installer, but it is still a significant amount of space. > > > I only want a live system > > that can be installed. I don't want the installer to "pull packages" > > from a pool like a regular installer if I can stop it. Is this possible > > with Debian Live? > > The udebs are for bootstrapping the install, so those are required to > make the installer work. That's non-negotiable. > > >>It's not wasted if you really do want the installer. > > > > What about the debs (not the udebs)? are they also required? > > The installer needs some debs as well. While the installer uses the live > system itself instead of a normal bootstrap to do a "live" install, > other things after that stage depend on choices the user makes and, as I > understand it, are where the debs come into play. > > Together, the udebs and debs make up about 119M on i386 or 92M on amd64 > for our prebuilt wheezy gnome images. I have not yet measured them on > the other flavours, but I would expect them to be the same size. I do > not consider this to be excessive. You've reported higher figures but, > as you have indicated, you have included some additional packages for > ndiswrapper. That would include every dependency needed to install those > packages, so it does add up. > > Ben > >
