Hi. I installed the Minimal profile for Wheezy the other day, and the partitions created were way to small. Now /usr/ need 2.4 GiB of space, while earlier it was less than 512 MiB. I had time to investigate what is going on, and discovered what I believe is the cause: gosa-desktop.
I had a look at the output from dpkg -l, and discovered a few packages that should not be installed in a minimal installation, like kde-runtime, kfind and vlc. This is the explonation from aptitude about these package: % aptitude why vlc i gosa-desktop Depends konqueror | iceweasel | mozilla | firefox i A konqueror Depends kde-runtime i A kde-runtime Depends phonon i A phonon Depends phonon-backend-vlc | phonon-backend i A phonon-backend-vlc Recommends vlc % root@dugnadsnett:~# aptitude why kfind i gosa-desktop Depends konqueror | iceweasel | mozilla | firefox i A konqueror Recommends kfind root@dugnadsnett:~# We install gosa-desktop in the minimal profile, which pull in konqueror, which pull in kde and vlc. I guess gosa-desktop should be moved from the networked task into a new networked the desktop tasks, to avoid it, but wonder if there are other solutions out there that do not require a new task. We could move and duplicate its entry in the roaming-workstation and workstation tasks instead of creating a new task they both pull in. What should we do to reduce the disk footprint of the minimal profile? As a short term workaround I've increased the partition sizes in debian-edu-install (uploaded to wheezy-test and unstable), to get the installation working again. It would fail with the old partition sizes. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
