Bug#484121: tasksel: let's sync on the GNOME task

[Frans Pop]

On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> It does not prevent us from shipping a better integrated word
> processor, [...]

I'm afraid it does because adding a second word processor would move e.g. 
some localization tasks off the first CD images, which is not an 
acceptable trade-off.

Here's some data about the desktop task (installed size using network 
mirror):
Sarge:  1392 MB (included GNOME _and_ KDE)
Etch: 1360 MB (GNOME only)
Lenny: 1857 MB (GNOME only)

As you can see, KDE was completely pushed out of default installs by the 
increased size of a GNOME install. To "solve" that we created the 
separate KDE (and Xfce) CD images.
As you can also see, the GNOME install has grown by >35% from Etch to 
Lenny, thus pushing other important software (like localization tasks) 
off the lower CDs.

The ever increasing size of the default desktop install also makes testing 
such installs increasingly annoying to do.

Cheers,
FJP
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