Re: Slink not installable from CDs
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 06:18:09AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > How do we determine what's important, and what's optional ?
>
> Some people already mentioned that we need to distinguish between
> certain packgages.
>
> I propose:
[...]
I think we should play a simple game of numbers, and I think FTP statistics
are a good place to get those numbers :)
Simply start with the most popular package, and pull in all of its
dependencies. Then continue with the next-most-popular package that isn't
already included, and pull in its dependencies. And so on... stop when
the next package+dependencies won't fit any more on the first CD.
I'd rather not make any discrimination based on which section/priority the
package maintainer thought the package should be in. "extra" contains some
rather useful packages (like sendmail) while "optional" contains many
less-popular niche packages.
Hmm, but I guess we'll also want to force 'base' in there whether it's
popular or not :)
I can't promise anything, but I _think_ I should have time to write a script
like this next weekend... if someone doesn't beat me to it. It should be a
pretty easy job of parsing the Packages and FTP statistics. The
dependencies will be the hardest part, but still a much easier job than the
APT and gdselect people have had...
Since this script will only really be useful to CD-makers, this project
would be mostly independent of dpkg-multicd or whatever.
Have fun,
Avery
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