Add full openoffice.org suite to dvd-live?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 01:19:22PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:34:00AM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > I'd like to propose adding openoffice.org (the full suite) to the dvd-live
> > seed so that it's part of the larger livefs (desktop only contains a
> > subset).  It doesn't fit on the CD, but it's already in main.
> 
> If the idea of this is to arrange for openoffice.org to be installed on
> DVD installations, then we'll also have to figure out how to tell
> ubiquity to keep it installed, rather than removing it because it's only
> in the live system and not in the desktop. At the moment, the effect of
> adding it to dvd-live will be that it gets expensively copied over then
> removed.

Yes, it is.  I hadn't thought about that bit yet.

> I think fixing this would require a new dvd-desktop seed with an
> associated task (no need for a metapackage), and a small livecd-rootfs
> change to add that task to LIST for *-dvd.

Indeed.  This isn't worth it for this change alone, but perhaps we should
keep a list of candidates like this (things which were dropped to Suggests
because they didn't fit?) which could be considered for the future if we
accumulate enough.

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 - mdz