Public bug reported: I download the Kubuntu DVD thinking it will have the entirety of KDE on it - namely all the packages whose sources available from KDE -- those listed at: http://kde.org/info/3.5.4.php
However, I was highly disappointed to find that important, useful and serious packages have been omitted while fun packages like kdegames and kdetoys have been included. kdeaccessibility, kdeedu and kdevelop have been totally omitted as are some packages from kdeadmin, kdegraphics, kdemultimedia, kdenetwork, kdepim, kdesdk and kdeutils. In place of this, foreign (to the KDE environment) packages such as Evolution and some gnome* packages have been included, taking up unnecessary (in a KDE-focused distro) space. These can be removed to make space for the real KDE packages. In fact, the size of the DVD is 3.4 GB - we still have 600 MB to fill up. It is only in case you don't want to go beyond 3.5 GB that my above suggestion of removing the GNOME apps is needed. Now I am not asking that the whole of KDE be *installed* in the default install. I am only asking that the whole of KDE be made *available* in the DVD for installation instead of making KDE fans like us download separately from the net (whether via Adept or otherwise). >From a conversation at #kubuntu-devel I gather that it is because these packages are not included into the main category but are in the universe category that they are not included in the DVD. Then this situation should be changed. The KDE packages should all be put into main, but of course not into the default installation list. In conclusion, I reiterate - the whole of KDE should be included in the Kubuntu DVD. ** Affects: Ubuntu Importance: Untriaged Status: Unconfirmed ** Description changed: I download the Kubuntu DVD thinking it will have the entirety of KDE on it - namely all the packages whose sources available from KDE -- those listed at: http://kde.org/info/3.5.4.php However, I was highly disappointed to find that important, useful and serious packages have been omitted while fun packages like kdegames and kdetoys have been included. kdeaccessibility, kdeedu and kdevelop have been totally omitted as are some packages from kdeadmin, kdegraphics, kdemultimedia, kdenetwork, kdepim, kdesdk and kdeutils. In place of this, foreign (to the KDE environment) packages such as Evolution and some gnome* packages have been included, taking up unnecessary (in a KDE-focused distro) space. These can be removed to make space for the real KDE packages. In fact, the size of the DVD is 3.4 GB - we still have 600 MB to fill - up. It is only + up. It is only in case you don't want to go beyond 3.5 GB that my above + suggestion of removing the GNOME apps is needed. Now I am not asking that the whole of KDE be *installed* in the default install. I am only asking that the whole of KDE be made *available* in the DVD for installation instead of making KDE fans like us download separately from the net (whether via Adept or otherwise). From a conversation at #kubuntu-devel I gather that it is because these packages are not included into the main category but are in the universe category that they are not included in the DVD. Then this situation should be changed. The KDE packages should all be put into main, but of course not into the default installation list. In conclusion, I reiterate - the whole of KDE should be included in the Kubuntu DVD. -- The whole of KDE should be included in the Kubuntu DVD https://launchpad.net/bugs/56971 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs