Quoting Samuel Thibault (2014-08-08 16:19:28)
Jonas Smedegaard, le Fri 08 Aug 2014 16:11:58 +0200, a écrit :
The following is on a wheezy chroot:
root@bastian:/# aptitude install task-gnome-desktop
The following NEW packages will be installed:
[...]
Need to get 370 MB of archives. After unpacking 1099 MB will be used.
root@bastian:/# aptitude install task-xfce-desktop
The following NEW packages will be installed:
[...]
Need to get 115 MB of archives. After unpacking 348 MB will be used.
Desktop needing 370MB versus 115MB seems pretty significant to me.
Actually it's 1.1GiB versus 348MiB. But that is barring the rest of
the desktop.
If the concern was e.g. price of harddisk to install on, then the
finally used disk space be the measure.
...but the concern I raised is bandwidth for packages to be installed -
which over-simplified can be expressed as "does it fit on a CD?".
Numbers for Sid (in a chroot for task package, not for a full install),
is 389MB versus 101MB.
More precise measurements can be found in the installation manual, for
which we also install task-desktop etc. which ends up with 3.2GiB for
Gnome & KDE, 2.3GiB for XFCE, 2GiB for LXDE.
I believe (but haven't checked) that installation manual don't document
bandwidth needs - in the past users could simply assume "a single
desktop fits on first CD".
- Jonas