advice, building livecd for translators

[Cybe R. Wizard]

anthony baldwin <anthony.baldwin01 at comcast.net>  said:
> Now, Gnome and Kde (my fave) are both just too darned fat.
> I mean, I can't seem to dump stuff I don't need on this disc,
> without dumping ubuntu-desktop or kubuntu-desktop, which,
> to me, means that KDE and Gnome are just holding onto too much stuff
> that I don't need.

IIRC (AITID*), the -desktop packages aren't necessary except to pull in
all the things that are the defaults for (X, K)Ubuntu.  You can get
along well without them after installation of your system and need to
if you are going to strip out the extras and burn a new installation CD.

*  OK, I just made that one up.  It means, "and I think I do."

Cybe R. Wizard
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