Bug#570772: squeeze: partition sizes to small for recommended packages

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Holger Levsen]
> Default partition sizes are too small for
> workstation+thin-client-server installation (/opt, /var/ and /usr/
> are too full). The cause is probably that all recommended packages
> are installed, and this require more space.

There are three strategies for solving this:

 - Clean up recommends in Debian packages, to avoid installing so many
   packages.  An example of such issue is fluid-soundfont-gm
   recommending fluid-soundfont-gs, while we only want to install one
   of them.

 - Change how we install packages, asking tasksel and other parts of
   d-i to not install recommended packages.  I believe this is
   straight forward, but then we do not get the recommended packages
   we might want to have installed.

 - Extend partition sizes to make room for the extra packages, which
   will increase the disk space requirement and make it harder for us
   testing the installation in virtual machines (I do not have more space
   to spend on the virtual disk. :).

I suggest we try to implement them in that order, and see how far we
get by asking for recommended packages to be changed to suggests where
it make sense before we decide if we should drop recommended packages
during installation or extend the default partition sizes.  I suspect
changing a few huge packages might be enough (the sound fonts packages
are enormous. :).

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen