Those extra packages on the live CD

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 04:26:26PM -0500, Tong Sun wrote:
> I have never taken a closer look at what's inside the Lubuntu CD, until now
> when I discovered that there is bunch of packages on the CD that is not
> packed in the filesystem.squashfs file. There are *quite* a few of them
> (ref 1).
> 
> What's the purpose of having those packages loose on the disk instead of
> installing them and have them in compressed squashfs file?

They're installed conditionally depending on exactly what the installer
needs to do.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]