On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 09:18:22AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Omer Zak wrote: > > >This is confusing to me. I thought that Debian (for a single > >architecture) fits into 7 CD's, and now it seems to fit into 14 CD's - > >or did I miss something which is too obvious to be explained in the > >missing README file in the above Web site? > > In addition to what my predecessors said, please note that Debian are > using a tool called "popcon". It's an opt-in option to send the list of > installed (and used) packages to the debian project. They use it as a > popularity contest between the packages (hence the name). > > The more popular a package, the earlier it is on the CD list. They do > that to counter the 14 CDs problem you mention. I don't have any > statistics, but my guess would be that about 80% of the people can make > do with just the first CD, and 90% with just the first two. > > Please note, however, that some Israeli only use pattern are unlikely to > make it into the first CDs. Two such patterns that come to mind are > Culmus and PPTP. Personally, I find that downloading the missing stuff > off the internet is faster for me than hanging around with all CDs.
pptp should be on the first CD, just like pppoe. At least on the netinstl CD they are. However do you want to make Debian Ehad (A single CD with most of the relevant software for israelies)? Basically what you need is to maintain a slightly modified pool of packages on that CD. Should be possible to be done automatically, given a mirror on the same machine. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
