lack of gnome on squeeze CD #1

[Josselin Mouette]

Le samedi 04 décembre 2010 à 01:24 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit : 
> Apparently the desktop task is just too large for the CD now. The minimum
> packages that *must* be on the CD for the desktop task to be offered
> at all are as follows:
> 	gnome-desktop-environment
> 	xorg
> 	xserver-xorg-video-all
> 	xserver-xorg-input-all
> 	desktop-base
> 	menu
> 	iceweasel

Where can that list be found? It looks correct, but different from the
one in tasksel.

(Although seriously, WTF menu? It’s not even activated by default.)

> Some of this could be trimmed, but not much. All told, it
> comes to 551 MB of packages. Leaving out the last 2 packages
> from the list, it's 550 MB of packages. Leaving out Recommends,
> 405 MB. IIRC, debian-cd currently treats Recommends like Depends,
> and always includes them.

So one of the solutions would be to ditch Recommends.

> 1. Ship squeeze with a CD that requires a fast network to be useful.
>    Sorta like the netinst CD, but bigger.  The default choice.

Like Steve asked, I wonder whether there is a need for a CD other than
netinst at all.

> 2. Switch the first CD to be the KDE CD [c], or the XFCE+LXDE CD [d].
> 3. Find a way to make gnome fit. One way would be to make it include
>    only a subset of the gnome-desktop-environment task. (Full GNOME
>    would still be downloaded from a mirror if a mirror was available.)
>    Or try to trim back the recommends either in debian-cd or
>    otherwise.

Full GNOME is already not included, since that would be the “gnome”
package, not “gnome-desktop-environment”.

If you really want to make it fit on a CD, we could use the following
list instead of the one above:
        gnome-core
        dmz-cursor-theme
        epiphany-browser (or iceweasel, but epiphany should be smaller)
        gdm3
        desktop-base
        evince
        file-roller
        gnome-about
        gnome-keyring
        gnome-screensaver
        gnome-themes
        gnome-user-guide
        gtk2-engines
        gvfs-backends
        libgnome2-perl (unless someone finally fixes #542175)
        policykit-1-gnome
        gnome-disk-utility
And if possible:
        gstreamer0.10-alsa
        gstreamer0.10-plugins-base
        gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
        totem
        evolution

I can make a metapackage out of this list if it can help.

Cheers,
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