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+               <title>Making room on the Debian Edu/Sqeeze DVD</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Making_room_on_the_Debian_Edu_Sqeeze_DVD.html</link>        
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+                <pubDate>Sun, 7 Nov 2010 11:45:00 +0100</pubDate>
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+&lt;p&gt;Prioritising packages for the Debian Edu /
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; DVD, which is
+supposed provide a school with all the services and user applications
+needed on the pupils computer network has always been hard.  Even
+schools without Internet connections should be able to get Debian Edu
+working using this DVD.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The job became a lot harder when apt and aptitude started
+installing recommended packages by default.  We want the same set of
+packages to be installed when using the DVD and the netinst CD, and
+that means all recommended packages need to be on the DVD.  I created
+a patch for debian-cd in BTS report #601203 to do this, and since this
+change was applied to the Debian Edu DVD build, we have been seriously
+short on space.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A few days ago we decided to drop blender, wxmaxima and kicad to
+save space on the DVD, believing that those needing these applications
+are few and can get them from the Debian archive.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, I had a look what source packages to see which packages
+were using most space.  A few large packages are well know;
+openoffice.org, openclipart and fluid-soundfont.  But I also
+discovered that lilypond used 106 MiB and fglrx-driver used 53 MiB.
+The lilypond package is pulled in as a dependency for rosegarden, and
+when looking a bit closer I discovered that 99 MiB of the 106 MiB were
+the documentation package, which is recommended by the binary package.
+I decided to drop this documentation package from our DVD, as most of
+our users will use the GUI front-ends and do not need the lilypond
+documentation.  Similarly, I dropped the non-free fglrx-driver package
+which might be installed by d-i when its hardware is detected, as the
+free X driver should work.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;With this change, we finally got space for the LXDE and Gnome
+desktop packages as well as the language specific packages making the
+DVD more useful again.&lt;/p&gt;
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