Frans Pop wrote: > The size of the base installation has changed considerably: from 178 to > 573 MB! Was the old count taken before the "fix" of aptitude? That's possible, I forgot to document how I got the numbers but iirc I used aptitude. > I suspect the main reason to be that if you check the size of tasks from > aptitude, you will also get packages that are _recommended_ by packages > in the task. However, if a task is installed from tasksel, these packages > will _not_ be installed by default! I do remember turning off aptitude recommends before generating the numbers. > Here is a page that has both the new and old table. I've also included two > extra paras to cover the issues mentioned earlier on. Comments welcome. > http://home.tiscali.nl/isildur/d-i/apcs03.html Looks good to me. > While checking the sizes I noticed the following: > - The Print server task is completely broken as it will pull in X and > Gnome: the task has foomatic-gui which depends python-gnome2 which ... How do you get from there to "completly broken"? > - Same goes for SQL server task which will pull in X because of pgaccess > which depends on tk8.3 which depends on xlibs... > IMHO this is completely broken for server tasks. <shrug>, I have many servers with bits of X installed, if they don't have to run an X server, this seems acceptible, it's just another library set. -- see shy jo
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