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+<div class="entry">
+ <div class="title">
+ <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Making_room_on_the_Debian_Edu_Sqeeze_DVD.html">Making room on the Debian Edu/Sqeeze DVD</a>
+ </div>
+ <div class="date">
+ 2010-11-07 11:45
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="body">
+
+<p>Prioritising packages for the Debian Edu /
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a> 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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+ </div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
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+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
+
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