Re: Paying CD vendors for freebies
Kenneth Scharf <scharkalvin@yahoo.com> writes:
> > Remember that the binary set is 2 CDs per arch >now....can't avoid 2
> CDs/set
> >
> > Potato will be 3 most likely.
> >
> >Our current growth rate is 50% per release, so we'll >be lucky to fit
> >post-potato (woody?) binary dist in less than 5 CDs.
> I hope that some serious thought is given as to what goes on each cd.
> It should be possible to fit the most important packages that 90% of
> all users need onto the first cd, and have the rest on the remaining
> cd's. Also the packages should be grouped and cataloged in such a way
> that you could only buy the cd's that you would need.
You may want to join in on debian-cd where these things are
discussed. Maybe you want to have a look at
http://cvs.debian.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/debian-boot/debian-cd/
Thanks,
Jens
P.S.: Please vote against Spam! At
http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/
(Sorry Europeans only)
---
Jens.Ritter@weh.rwth-aachen.de grimaldi@debian.org
Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter
Key fingerprint: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37
Reply to: