Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> I tried to get some figures on kfreebsd-amd64 (where XFCE is still the
> default for now) using the tools from debian-cd.git, hacked to generate
> a jessie CD-1 packagelist without a full mirror available. If these
> results are correct, it looks rather promising:
> * required stuff for CD1, no full desktop: 819 packages / 357 MiB
> * LXDE: 926 packages / 413 MiB
> * MATE: 954 packages / 468 MiB
> * XFCE: 946 packages / 433 MiB
>
> Since LXDE is so small, and MATE and XFCE share many components, I think
> it is even viable (at least on kfreebsd) to fit all three onto one CD!
> (1049 packages / 507 MiB)
>
> Since MATE images don't exist yet, perhaps an LXDE+MATE+XFCE CD-ROM
> would be sufficient, and saves having to produce yet another image type?
> On kfreebsd we may not care to have CD-1, 2, 3 etc. any more if we had
> such a disc (but still having a DVD-1 for the default desktop, of course).
Yeah, it looks like adding MATE to XFCE may only add 70 mb or so of debs.
That's a good idea!
For such a CD, it makes sense for debian-cd to pass desktop=xfce (or
perhaps mate). Tasksel will then default to mate, and let the user
choose from the other available desktop environments[1], either the
limited set included on the CD, or the full set available from the
mirror.
It might be pretty reasonable to make such a CD be CD #1. Unless it
would be too confusing to make that CD default to a different desktop
than the DVDs do.
--
see shy jo
[1] Although tasksel does not currently make lxde or cinnamon choices
visible in its task list. TBD
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