Proposal for solving CD Size problems

[Scott James Remnant]

On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 21:18 +0100, Vassilis Pandis wrote:

> --- Scott James Remnant <scott at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Rationale:
> > 
> >   - A CD is not large enough for the kinds of things we want to ship by
> >     default already
> > 
> >   - More features in future releases (such as telepathy, compiz, etc.)
> >     mean more space required
> > 
> 
> I'm not sure I should be even pointing this out to you (considering you wrote it), 
> but my ignorance provides an excellent excuse to do so :-) . 
> 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Dpkg7Zip claims that 
> 
> "7zip offers a 24%-27% saving in storage space but is 3 times slower to compress and decompress. A
> 24% saving would allow a massive 134Mb of addition packages to be added to the standard CD."
> 
> Wouldn't this solve the problem ? 
> 
No, because the desktop CD does not contain any packages -- it's
installed by copying a filesys

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott at ubuntu.com

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