Andrei Popescu wrote:
Meaning packages like exim-daemon-light in base, and exim-daemon-heavy in server-mail? Good idea.On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:23:44 +0000 Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk> wrote:I think this is an excellent strategy - especially the base install doubling as a live CD.Thinking more about this I think my personal wishlist/vision would be something like this: CD1: Live/Rescue/Base system CD-Desktop-Base CD-Desktop-Office CD-Desktop-Multimedia ... CD-Server-Web CD-Server-Mail CD-Server-SQL ... CD-Developer-Web CD-Developer-Programming ... CD-Scientific-Math ... AndreiWhat would happen to packages like Apache and Exim? You might expect to find them in more than one CD eg Base, Web, Mail etc.I would rather keep light packages in base and put the heavy machinery on the special CDs. This way you get lots of functionality with the base CD, but if you really need to set up a "heavy" server you would download the respective CD.
Now that's a really good idea! It means that specialist distros could be created very easily.Would you end up with a lot more CDs because the packages do not completely fill a particular CD? Perhaps you could get around this by making your list a list of sections rather than CDs. Then you could have the sections spanning CDs in order to fill the space. You would put the sections in the order you suggest so that desktop users would only need the first few CDs. This would be equivalent to the idea of "Debian Lite". Sysadmins or developers probably have such fat internet connections that downloading a larger number of CDs or installing via HTTP/FTP is not an inconvenience.Chris.Or maybe use jigdo to build your own CD-set according to task and/or individual package selections?
Any chance of any of this actually happenning? Chris.