Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Software Additions

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> >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 software
> >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?
> 
> It's a very good point.

I'm afraid it'll happen soon.  Especially if we keep adding everything
that is requested.  Everybody is going to want something different.

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

Let me say first that I'm NOT in favor of a DVD distro, which leaves us
with two other options (as far as I can tell):

1)  Get tough and start rejecting software requests.

2)  Keep accepting all/most reasonable requests and plan on creating
    multiple editions (ISO's) sometime in the future.

I'm actually leaning toward #2.  If we go with #1 and don't accept
another software request ever again, we'll still run out of room someday
because existing packages will continue growing in size.

FWIW ...   :-)

 - BS