I'm installing FreeSWITCH from debian packages on a fresh machine, i686 wheezy.

apt-get install -y freeswitch-meta-all
has resulted in just 3 packages installed:

# aptitude search freeswitch | egrep '^i'
i A freeswitch                      - Cross-Platform Scalable Multi-Protocol Sof
i   freeswitch-meta-all             - Cross-Platform Scalable Multi-Protocol Sof
i A libfreeswitch1                  - Cross-Platform Scalable Multi-Protocol Sof

Previously freeswitch-meta-all was installing the whole lot.