Hi, richs@dreamlinuxforums.org wrote: > They are free, do not take up space, but > without them (on a wireless only computer) you hit a vicious circle; > Needing internet to be able to get internet. Avoiding the free vs. non-free firmware issue, most of these packages are available on Debian CDs/DVDs, just perhaps not on the first installation media. The choice of which software to put on the first CD is a correlation between software importance and target audience size, so it's not so easy to determine. If I understand your problem correctly, the packages you need (atl2-modules) aren't even available in Etch, so you're probably talking about Lenny CDs, right? If not, I guess this might be a problem. If what you mean is madwifi-source, then the problem is the non-free status, which means we simply can't distribute it on CDs. If the package you need isn't a victim of any of the above mentioned problems, you can find the CDs which contain it here[0]. > I have backups (via aptoncd) for all of the aforementioned tools and > dependencies for Etch, Lenny and Sid. However, I ythink that their > inclusion is far more important than, say... renaming Firefox or > including Mono in the gnome desktop. Mono is not included in the first CD, just as the tools you need. The renaming of Firefox is not a matter of taste (as could be argued about the order of packages on CDs), and had to be done because of the reasons explained here[1] (lots of mail-list archive reading...). So neither of those are arguments have any relevance to the matter at hand. Cheers [0] http://atterer.net/jigdo/jigdo-search.php [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/12/msg00328.html -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here]
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