RFC: Switch to Firefox and a 1.5 GB image

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Mon Dec 5 21:35:32 UTC 2011


On 12/05/2011 04:33 PM, Felix Geyer wrote:
> On 05.12.2011 21:58, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> Are you proposing we do:
>>
>> 1.5 GB USB Live
>> 1.5 GB USB Alternate
>> 700 MB CD Live
>> 700 MB CD Alternate
>>
>> We'd need to figure out what to do with kubuntu-full.  Addition of a
>> larger metapackage seemed to be a popular feature.  Perhaps it should
>> move to Universe to it can include digikam and not be tied to an image
>> at all.
> 
> Either that or dropping the 700 MB alternate image given that
> we always have trouble finding image testers.
> 
> Are you sure that kubuntu-full is popular?
> At least it's not very well maintained. Until now it pulled in fglrx and
> nvidida-current which seems to break OpenGL if you don't have the
> right graphics card.
> Anyway, we could move it to meta-kde, make it depend on kde-full and
> add the extra packages as dependencies/recommends.

Both those (dropping the alternate and moving it to meta-kde) sound
good.  I don't know if it's popular, but I saw it mentioned favorably in
reviews.

Scott K




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