I have seen other distros use a script to install OpenOffice postinstall
saving about 300 mb on the CD; the idea being that the user mostly needs or
wants to see if the distro works with the hardware and is to the users
liking, not using it for long.
                                Regards, Jeff

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Daniel Baumann <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On 02/08/2011 04:32 PM, Phil Calvert wrote:
> > Indeed, that is the solution, and it is simpler than I expected. I just
> built a Squeeze LXDE hybrid ISO, and the size is 462M. The prebuilt LXDE
> image is 750M, and I was not expecting to see such a large difference.
>
> having automatical installation of recommended packages enabled or not
> makes a huge difference.
>
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