Re: Bug#38902: [PROPOSED] data section
"Darren O. Benham" <gecko@debian.org> writes:
> reason:
> - The data subdirectory is an entire part of Debian. Its purpose is to
> let the CD vendors/archives maintainers/users choice between a Debian
> Light who fit on a reasonable amount of CDs, and an Debian Extended who
> can fill your entire RAID array.
I'm not *strongly* opposed to this idea, but I think there may be
stuff that would be moved to the data subdir by this proposal which
might just be better off kept in the main distribution, even the
"light" version. An obvious example is the Jargon file (which I
*strongly* believe should remain in main).
I'd *prefer* the approach of putting the most interesting/important
stuff on CD one, the somewhat interesting stuff on CD two, and the
least interesting stuff on CD three+. In general, I think this will
cause *most* of the pure-data packages to end up on CD three, but
won't be quite so arbitrary. But it's also a lot more work, and
involves possibly contentious value judgements, which is why I'm not
formally objecting to this proposal, just raising an issue for
discussion.
IOW, I'm not really happy with this proposal, but I don't hate it
either.
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