Re: CD sizes again (and BoF reminder!)

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

As suggested by Ansgar IRL, here's a summary of what compression types
are showing up on each CD (by looking at data.tar.$EXT for all the
.debs and .udebs):

>Gnome
>=====
>
>The last package on amd64 CD#1 is gnome-packagekit-data. task-desktop
>fits on CD#1, but task-gnome-desktop is ~110 packages into
>CD#2. gnome-shell-common doesn't even make CD#1, which means the
>desktop will be a little... sparse. The full sorted package list is at
>
>  http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/tmp/new-tasks/gnome-cd.list.gz

bz2  16 deb
xz    8 deb, 157 udeb
gz  897 deb,  60 udeb

>KDE
>===
>
>The last package on amd64 CD#1 is libkontactinterface4. task-desktop
>fits on CD#1, but task-kde-desktop is about 60 packages into (what
>would be) CD#2. The full sorted package list is at
>
>  http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/tmp/new-tasks/kde-cd.list.gz

bz2  17 deb
xz    6 deb, 157 udeb
gz  879 deb,  60 udeb

>LIGHT (lxde/xfce)
>=====
>
>The last package on amd64 CD#1 is libmng1. The core tasks fit fine
>(task-desktop, task-lxde-desktop, task-xfce-desktop), well within the
>the space of CD#1. Full sorted list at
>
>  http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/tmp/new-tasks/light-cd.list.gz

bz2  23 deb
xz   28 deb, 157 udeb
gz  877 deb,  60 udeb

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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