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Re: Size of the iso image



On Friday 29 October 2010 20:46:37 os.news@gmx.de wrote:
> Now I wonder why the Lenny-iso has a size of 500 MB and the Squeeze-iso is
> 750 MB large. I don't think that the applications have grown so much from
> Lenny to Squeeze. Do I have to configure Squeeze live-helper to compress
> the iso-image? Thanks for your answer.

Probably has to do with the fact that recommended packages are now also installed by default.
With aptitude you can specify "--without-recommends", but not sure if/how to do that with live-
helper.


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