At the moment, when debian-cd is asked to include recommended packages as well as dependencies, it will look at the list of packages to be installed, include their dependencies and recommended packages, but no do this recursively. This will for example put a different set of packages on the DVD/CD if the package list include kdebase, than if it include kdebase and kde-standard. kdebase recommend kde-standard, and the packages recommended by kde-standard are not put on the image.
On the other hand, apt will install recommended packages recursively, and install the same set of packages if asked to install only kdebase and if asked to install both kdebase and kde-standard. Because of this, I believe debian-cd should be changed to include recommended packages recursively. I no not know how much work this is, but thought it best to mention it here to make more people aware of this. I discovered the difference when comparing the set of packages installed by Debian Edu when installing using DVD and PXE. The PXE installation would install more packages, because then apt could pick packages from the entire archive, while the DVD install would get less packages because only the first level of recommends are available on the DVD. :) Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2flaape48lf....@login2.uio.no