[indiana-discuss] Re: 3.1) Installation

[Glynn Foster]

Glynn Foster wrote:
> Tasks
> =====
>  o Media Contents
>      - Investigate the current size requirements for various consolidations
>        assuming a single CD and ability to install a core operating system
>        and desktop environment. Divide up that investigation by removing
>        non-essential developers headers, tools and duplicate functionality.
> 
>      - Investigate how much more space with compression vs the performance
>        impact on the install speed
> 
>      - Based on the above, come up with an initial package list as a target
>        to work towards

Having started to look in to see what might be an initial package list to seed a
single CD, I figured it would be good to look over the water at Ubuntu. Looking
at the contents for 7.04, there's a metric sh*tload of packages there -

http://www.gnome.org/~gman/ubuntu-pkg-list.txt

Very surprising.

Might be interesting to see if I can pull out some dependencies from dpkg and
get some rough size numbers while I'm at it (although obviously need to do
something similar with Solaris Express also).


Glynn