Package: tasksel Version: 2.74 Severity: wishlist As previously discussed on IRC we could save 109MB installed size and 43MB download size/CD space for the desktop task by dropping the parts of OpenOffice that depend on Java. This will result in the removal of: * packages depending on openoffice.org-java-common: - openoffice.org-base (MS Access equivalent, not a real -base package) - openoffice.org-writer2latex (document export filters to LaTeX) - openoffice.org-officebean (embedding OOo in Jave apps) * packages that depend on openoffice.org-base: - openoffice.org-evolution (provides access to Evolution address books) * all automatically installed java packages, including: - gcj/gij - java-common, fastjar, bsh - libgcj*, loads of lib*-java I'm filing this against tasksel as that is where the issue shows and also where it could be solved by just including those components of OOo that we _do_ want to include. Alternatively this could be fixed by redefining the existing OOo meta package, or by requesting a new "OOo-light" or OOo-nojava" meta package and switching to that in the desktop task. Another 5MB could possibly be saved by changing oo.org-style-andromeda (MS Office-like style package) from Depends to Recommends in oo.org-common. Cheers, FJP
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