[Bug 56971] [NEW] The whole of KDE should be included in the Kubuntu DVD

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I download the Kubuntu DVD thinking it will have the entirety of KDE on
it - namely all the packages whose sources available from KDE -- those
listed at: http://kde.org/info/3.5.4.php

However, I was highly disappointed to find that important, useful and
serious packages have been omitted while fun packages like kdegames and
kdetoys have been included. kdeaccessibility, kdeedu and kdevelop have
been totally omitted as are some packages from kdeadmin, kdegraphics,
kdemultimedia, kdenetwork, kdepim, kdesdk and kdeutils.

In place of this, foreign (to the KDE environment) packages such as
Evolution and some gnome* packages have been included, taking up
unnecessary (in a KDE-focused distro) space. These can be removed to
make space for the real KDE packages.

In fact, the size of the DVD is 3.4 GB - we still have 600 MB to fill
up. It is only in case you don't want to go beyond 3.5 GB that my above
suggestion of removing the GNOME apps is needed.

Now I am not asking that the whole of KDE be *installed* in the default
install. I am only asking that the whole of KDE  be made *available* in
the DVD for installation instead of making KDE fans like us download
separately from the net (whether via Adept or otherwise).

>From a conversation at #kubuntu-devel I gather that it is because these
packages are not included into the main category but are in the universe
category that they are not included in the DVD. Then this situation
should be changed. The KDE packages should all be put into main, but of
course not into the default installation list.

In conclusion, I reiterate - the whole of KDE should be included in the
Kubuntu DVD.

** Affects: kubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed

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The whole of KDE should be included in the Kubuntu DVD
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/56971
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