Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Software Additions

[Heiko Z. <hz...@pr...>]

On 10/16/2003 09:18:26 AM Bruce Smith wrote:
>General question (not necessarily directed toward UPnP):
>
>Do we need to start getting picky about what software is included?
>
>One of these days in the not so distant future, the DL ISO is going to=

>become too large to fit on a single CD.  In my experience it's much
>easier to reject software requests now, as opposed to removing softwar=
e
>later to reduce the size. (at least we won't piss off people as much :=
)
>
>Or maybe we don't worry about it, and when DL doesn't fit on a CD any
>longer we start building different ISO's?  (firewall edition, mail
>server edition, web server edition, ... stupid software edition :)
>
>Or maybe DL goes DVD-only after it surpasses the 650/700MB limit?
>
>As I said, I'm not picking on UPnP.  I haven't read about it yet, and
>don't really understand what it is.  This is just something I've been
>wondering about for awhile ...

It's a very good point.

I'm not sure how we should handle it.
It's sometimes hard to decide if we really need a specific software.

cya
  Heiko
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