The F3 images are a chalange to say the least. The basic problem is that we have moved beyond the current system, space and accessability being two aspects. What we need is the apt-cdrom part of apt to be rock solid and then we can have as many CDs as we like, task packages and all the rest of the goodies. So apt-cdrom is now an urgent matter as far as I am concerned.
Thanks for these comments. I am planning for the next series (G1?) to have three images and all the packages and with apt working with CDs accessability should be no problem. There will probably still be a section for unistallable packages because of unmet dependencies. Would someone pick up apt and make certain that the cdrom aspect works well? Phil. On 9 Jul 2001, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The Turtle has not beaten me! Still at two CDs, but this has meant that I > > have had to work at the Exclusion list. > > Well, you're cheating now ... There are some packages on your list > that are certainly useless, but others are more of the "extra" > variety. Specifically: > > * are KDE and Gnome really not worthless? I dimly remember Marcus > stating that Gnome worked in principle. > > * kernel-source-* may actually be useful for people that want to snarf > current Linux drivers to put them into Mach. > > * "Linux" documentation is often not that Linux specific. I'd wager > that half of the HOWTOs apply to all GNU systems (if not all > Unices). Similar for lg-*. foo-doc packages where foo does not yet > exist should be excepted, of course. > > * alien may have some use converting arch-independent rpms, for > example. > > Sure, the benefit is certainly not big for these, but not exactly > zero, either. It depends on the cost involved in producing another CD, > which I'm total oblivious of... > > -- > Robbe > - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Dunedin, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 267 9420. I sell GNU/Linux CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
