If you just want to disable certain large packages, could you do some sort of pinning arrangement on them? You should be able to configure apt so that it (for example) prefers an older version of OOo to an updated one, but likes a security fix better still. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto for one of the many guides about this. If this works, you might want to consider auto-generating such a list with a bit of Perl that grabs large files in /var/cache/apt/archives/.
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