Any hope of reducing dependency sizes in lenny?

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

While starting the lenny test builds for Debian Edu, I noticed a few
"redundant" dependencies being pulled into the CD:

  gcc-3.3-base (pulled in by openoffice.org via libstdc++5)
  gcc-3.4-base (pulled in by openoffice.org via libg2c0)
  gcc-4.1-base (pulled in by octaviz via libgfortran1)
  gcc-4.2-base (pulled in by adduser via libgcc1)

  libdb4.2 (pulled in by slapd)
  libdb4.3 (pulled in by iproute and squidguard)
  libdb4.4 (pulled in by apt via libsasl2-2)
  libdb4.5 (pulled in by openoffice.org via openoffice.org-core)
  libdb4.6 (pulled in by adduser via libpam-modules)

Is there any work going on to try to get the packages using these
libraries to use the latest version?  It would save some space on the
Debian Edu CDs and let us provide more educational software and less
redundant packages.  Every byte count. :)

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen