Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Chris Metzler wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:32:56 -0600
> John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> wrote:
>
> > Colin Watson writes:
> >
> > > No, it's not, because you very likely don't need them all. It's not as
> > > if the installer requires registration of all 13 before it lets you do
> > > anything else.
> >
> > Most potential users don't know that.
>
>
> Well, it doesn't make much sense to me to put up a page with installation
> instructions ("You only need Disk #1 to install the base system...") for
> a release that doesn't exist and isn't imminent.  Presumably, when there
> actually is a release, this fact will be publicized -- like it was for
> Woody, which was 7 CDs but didn't require them all either.
>
> -c

I hear everybody saying "But you don't need the 13 cd's". OK, I don't 
need the 13 CD's. But I have x CD's and have them registered with 
apt-cdrom. Now I want a package Y. Synaptic or whatever won't show it 
because it isn't on the CD's.
Where do I now find "Dummy, the package is on CD #z which you did not 
download!"?

Hugo.