Re: Help needed for lenny live RC1
From: BALLABIO GERARDO
> For gnome and kde, I renew my suggestion of excluding
> openoffice.org. The cumulative size of the openoffice.org*
> packages is more than 100 MB, that should be more than
> enough. I know you didn't like that suggestion, but please
> consider that a live-cd without openoffice.org is better than
> no live-cd. At least keep that as a last-resort plan if a
> better alternative doesn't show up.
>
> Anyway, if I find time and don't get lost in the dependency
> tree, I'll try to find other ways to cut 60 MB.
I've looked into the package list for the gnome flavor. I identified several "leaf" packages that might be removed together with some of their dependencies, but only few of them make for significant space, and those are packages that, while not strictly part of Gnome, one would reasonably expect to be there. Thus removing openoffice.org still seems to me the only viable option.
Anyway, these are the groups of packages that I found. The numbers are the sizes of the Debian binary packages. I am not sure how they translate into the size of the livecd image, but I suppose they be close. This was done manually, so the list of removable dependencies might not be complete or even correct.
- openoffice.org and reverse dependencies (leaf packages: openoffice.org, openoffice.org-help-en-us, openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us, openoffice.org-gnome, openoffice.org.gcj, openoffice.org-evolution):
openoffice.org_2.4.1-17_i386.deb 274558
openoffice.org-base_2.4.1-17_i386.deb 2953334
openoffice.org-base-core_2.4.1-17_i386.deb 972514
openoffice.org-calc_2.4.1-17_i386.deb 5667066
openoffice.org-common_2.4.1-17_all.deb 14508316
openoffice.org-core_2.4.1-17_i386.deb 38641752
openoffice.org-draw_2.4.1-17_i386.deb 2944348
openoffice.org-evolution_2.4.1-17_i386.deb 356026
openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev_2.4.1-17_all.deb 367204
openoffice.org-gcj_2.4.1-17_i386.deb 3575134
openoffice.org-gnome_2.4.1-17_i386.deb 355290
openoffice.org-gtk_2.4.1-17_i386.deb 469380
openoffice.org-help-en-us_2.4.1-17_all.deb 12553068
openoffice.org-impress_2.4.1-17_i386.deb 897852
openoffice.org-java-common_2.4.1-17_all.deb 2975540
openoffice.org-math_2.4.1-17_i386.deb 584478
openoffice.org-officebean_2.4.1-17_i386.deb 319650
openoffice.org-report-builder-bin_2.4.1-17_i386.deb 1125102
openoffice.org-style-andromeda_2.4.1-17_all.deb 3457616
openoffice.org-style-tango_2.4.1-17_all.deb 3699482
openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us_2.4.0-3_all.deb 5141642
openoffice.org-writer_2.4.1-17_i386.deb 7496356
openoffice.org-writer2latex_0.5-8_all.deb 383094
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109718802
- inkscape:
inkscape_0.46-2.lenny2_i386.deb 18044096
- gimp:
gimp_2.4.7-1_i386.deb 4001688
gimp-data_2.4.7-1_all.deb 9793454
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13795142
- pidgin:
pidgin_2.4.3-4_i386.deb 678692
pidgin-data_2.4.3-4_all.deb 7013756
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7692448
- gthumb:
gthumb_2.10.8-1_i386.deb 666510
gthumb-data_2.10.8-1_all.deb 2123910
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2790420
The following aren't strictly leaf packages, they are dependencies of the gnome metapackage, but are supposedly self-contained enough that they could be removed (or at least I guess so):
- gnome-games:
gnome-games_2.16.3-1_i386.deb 800790
gnome-games-data_2.22.3-3_all.deb 18506504
gnome-cards-data_2.22.3-3_all.deb 623648
gnuchess_5.07-4.1_i386.deb 95668
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20026610
- gnome-themes-extras:
gnome-themes-extras_0.9.0.deb0.4_all.deb 5767848
- gdm-themes:
gdm-themes_0.6.1_all.deb 3743604
Summary: to free ~55 MB as needed, you either remove openoffice.org (~105 MB), or gimp, inkscape and gnome-games (~49 MB) plus a few other packages (that may be pidgin, or gthumb and gnome-themes-extras, or gnome-themes-extras and gdm-themes...). Again, I'd choose openoffice.org.
I'll add that if you remove openoffice.org, you can include gnome-office as a replacement. It and its missing dependencies require ~16 MB, while removing openoffice.org will leave ~50 MB free:
gnome-office_2.22.2~5_all.deb 14424
abiword-plugin-goffice_2.6.4-5+b1_i386.deb 62338
abiword_2.6.4-5+b1_i386.deb 2882026
abiword-common_2.6.4-5_all.deb 1979764
gnumeric_1.8.3-5_i386.deb 2287288
gnumeric-common_1.8.3-5_all.deb 5244684
libfribidi0_0.10.9-1_i386.deb 42644
libgoffice-0-4_0.4.2-4_i386.deb 630946
libaiksaurus-1.2-0c2a_1.2.1+dev-0.12-6_i386.deb 23488
libaiksaurus-1.2-data_1.2.1+dev-0.12-6_all.deb 317310
libaiksaurusgtk-1.2-0c2a_1.2.1+dev-0.12-6_i386.deb 33428
libloudmouth1-0_1.4.2-2_i386.deb 65202
libots0_0.5.0-2_i386.deb 37990
libwv-1.2-3_1.2.4-2_i386.deb 138982
libgoffice-0-6_0.6.3-1_i386.deb 1119392
libgoffice-0-common_0.4.2-4_all.deb 773620
libgsf-gnome-1-114_1.14.8-1lenny1_i386.deb 58258
libgoffice-0-6-common_0.6.3-1_all.deb 924960
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Gerardo
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