Quoting Samuel Thibault (2014-08-08 16:19:28) > Jonas Smedegaard, le Fri 08 Aug 2014 16:11:58 +0200, a écrit : >> The following is on a wheezy chroot: >> >> root@bastian:/# aptitude install task-gnome-desktop >> The following NEW packages will be installed: >> [...] >> Need to get 370 MB of archives. After unpacking 1099 MB will be used. >> >> root@bastian:/# aptitude install task-xfce-desktop >> The following NEW packages will be installed: >> [...] >> Need to get 115 MB of archives. After unpacking 348 MB will be used. >> >> Desktop needing 370MB versus 115MB seems pretty significant to me. > > Actually it's 1.1GiB versus 348MiB. But that is barring the rest of > the desktop.
If the concern was e.g. price of harddisk to install on, then the finally used disk space be the measure. ...but the concern I raised is bandwidth for packages to be installed - which over-simplified can be expressed as "does it fit on a CD?". Numbers for Sid (in a chroot for task package, not for a full install), is 389MB versus 101MB. > More precise measurements can be found in the installation manual, for > which we also install task-desktop etc. which ends up with 3.2GiB for > Gnome & KDE, 2.3GiB for XFCE, 2GiB for LXDE. I believe (but haven't checked) that installation manual don't document bandwidth needs - in the past users could simply assume "a single desktop fits on first CD". - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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