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Re: Ridiculously large packages



On Friday 20 November 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> For now, I've added a cutoff of 300,000,000 bytes as a maximum package
> size for adding to CDs. That means that the following 3 packages will
> be dropped from the squeeze CD builds:
>
>  306308472 pool/main/o/openarena-data/openarena-data_0.8.1-2_all.deb
>  534777750 pool/main/v/vtk/vtk-doc_5.2.1-11_all.deb
>  793400238 pool/main/n/nexuiz-data/nexuiz-data_2.5.2-1_all.deb
>
> The debian-cd code will automatically pick up on dependencies too, so
> any packages that *depend* on these will also be dropped.

Would it be possible to generate a list of excluded packages and add that 
as a README on CD1?


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