Re: Changes to the DVD when debian-cd pull in all recommended packages...
[Olivier Vitrat]
> I may already have asked this,
If you did, I suspect you already got this answer.
> but can't we have a DVD for GNOME, a KDE one, and a
> "all_the_others_DM" one ? Is there a technical/manpower issue to
> this ?
It is mostly for logistical reasons. It is easier to distribute one
DVD, and to create its associated source DVD. Each ISO need testing
and man-power to set up the build. The more ISOs we create, the more
work someone need to spend on them.
> In real life, do we have installations mixing several desktop
> managers ?
I have no idea, and it is not relevant for the choice of only making a
limited set of ISOs.
> The more the archive is growing, the less options you'll have to fit
> all on one media. Or just wait everybody to get their own blue-ray
> drive :-)
Well, given that we install heaps of packages dupliating each others
functionallity, I believe we can do much by just dropping unwated
packages. See the end of
<URL: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Squeeze >.
Happy hacking,
--
Petter Reinholdtsen
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