Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Software Additions

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

On 10/16/2003 09:57:07 AM Bruce Smith wrote:
>> >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 muc=
h
>:)
>> >
>> >Or maybe we don't worry about it, and when DL doesn't fit on a CD a=
ny
>> >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 u=
s
>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 somed=
ay
>because existing packages will continue growing in size.

I agree with 2, too. ;-)

We were talking about this earlier, it should be fairly easy to add
profiles to our menuconfig.

cya
  Heiko
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