Re: F3 CDs - final stages
The F3 images are a chalange to say the least. The basic problem is that
we have moved beyond the current system, space and accessability being two
aspects. What we need is the apt-cdrom part of apt to be rock solid and
then we can have as many CDs as we like, task packages and all the rest of
the goodies. So apt-cdrom is now an urgent matter as far as I am
concerned.
Thanks for these comments. I am planning for the next series (G1?) to
have three images and all the packages and with apt working with CDs
accessability should be no problem. There will probably still be a
section for unistallable packages because of unmet dependencies.
Would someone pick up apt and make certain that the cdrom aspect works
well?
Phil.
On 9 Jul 2001, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> Philip Charles <philipc@copyleft.co.nz> writes:
>
> > The Turtle has not beaten me! Still at two CDs, but this has meant that I
> > have had to work at the Exclusion list.
>
> Well, you're cheating now ... There are some packages on your list
> that are certainly useless, but others are more of the "extra"
> variety. Specifically:
>
> * are KDE and Gnome really not worthless? I dimly remember Marcus
> stating that Gnome worked in principle.
>
> * kernel-source-* may actually be useful for people that want to snarf
> current Linux drivers to put them into Mach.
>
> * "Linux" documentation is often not that Linux specific. I'd wager
> that half of the HOWTOs apply to all GNU systems (if not all
> Unices). Similar for lg-*. foo-doc packages where foo does not yet
> exist should be excepted, of course.
>
> * alien may have some use converting arch-independent rpms, for
> example.
>
> Sure, the benefit is certainly not big for these, but not exactly
> zero, either. It depends on the cost involved in producing another CD,
> which I'm total oblivious of...
>
> --
> Robbe
>
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