[Petter Reinholdtsen] > > Any comments? Any idea how to change debian-cd to make it behave > > this way? > > I believe this patch solve it. It will first check all the packages > listed in the OR list to see if any of them are already included. If > none of them are included, the first of the acceptable packages is > added. I'm testing this with Debian Edu now. It got rid of quite a > few unwanted packages. :)
I think you should probably _always_ include at least the first alternative so that the package tools can have the chance to figure out what the optimal solution is for a given set of packages. Note that this issue is related to #410418. A few patches have been tried recently for this, but those broke full CD images. The issue has been discussed a few times and Sledge's conclusion is that, since the rewrite of debian-cd for Etch (3.0 release), list2cds may no longer be the correct place to implement this. Also somewhat related is: #451237. Here is some of the conversation: <Sledge> debian-cd v3.x moves the whole dependency stuff from the list2cds stage to later in the chain <Sledge> so we (OK, I) need to think about it some more in make_disc_trees <Sledge> list2cds is now *just* for sorting <fjp>: OK. So l2cd could do a bit less dep checking then? <Sledge> fjp: yep <Sledge> we now don't pretend to know what will fit up-front in list2cds <Sledge> so we need the full list in make_disc_trees <Sledge> I looked into this ~ 8 months ago and it hurt my brane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
