From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 10:54:18 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: New blog post.
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New blog post.
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+Title: Making room on the Debian Edu/Sqeeze DVD
+Tags: english, nuug, debian edu
+Date: 2010-11-07 11:45
+
+<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>