Re: Package Selection for Debian Live

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@panthera-systems.net> writes:

> [ crosspost to live, -devel and -edu; replies please to -devel ]
>
> Hi all,
>
> at the moment, we have two types of Live CD images:
>
>   * the small one which contains only packages of standard priority,
>   * and three larger ones, each of which contains one of the common
>     desktop-environments on it (gnome, kde, xfce).
>
> Now, we would like to create a decent package selection which reflects,
> as well as possible, the users' desires. There should be one package
> selection for a 700MB CD-ROM, and one for a 4.5GB DVD-ROM. With the
> current squashfs compression, the actual filesystem size is about 3
> times bigger than the packed one. This means that there can be quite a
> few packages on it :) I'm open for your suggestions...
>
> Regards,
> Daniel

It might be helpfull if you could post a link to the image and source
for people to try it out.

MfG
        Goswin