On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 12:36:30AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > Undefined User <unknowuse...@gmail.com> writes: > > > 2014-04-04 19:52 GMT-03:00 Philip Hands <p...@hands.com>: > > > >> pointless discussion > > > > First of all, great attitude, my friend. It seems like you are a very > > reasonable person. Second, pointless discussion? So all these people here > > are just wasting time? Well... What can I say? That's your point of view > > and I have to respect it. > > Well, I should probably have worded the conditional clause in that > sentence to make my point more clearly -- i.e.: > > Given that the options other than XFCE that people are advocating here > (Gnome and KDE) don't actually fit on CD#1, there is very little point > trying to decide which of them you might want, since you cannot have > either of them. > > If you're wondering where the idea that they will no longer fit on CD#1 > came from, it's been a repeating theme on debian-boot, as the packages > and dependencies have grown over time -- this thread seems to cover the > subject pretty well, if you read all of it (there's quite a lot of it > though): > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2013/05/msg00684.html > > As for my grumpy tone, I apologise for that -- it probably comes from > the several voluminous threads on debian-devel recently spouting drivel > about systemd which I may have unfairly associated with this thread.
These days why bother with CDs at all - simply use DVDs? Too many choices is hard on finite developer resources and really not needed. IMHO YMMV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140405022745.GD32650@Jessie