Installing recommends and the CD size

[Michael Vogt]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:25:45AM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 03:07:09PM -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> > Michael Vogt wrote:
> > > 
> > > * we could build the CD without recommends and have additional dvd or
> > > 1gb usb stick images that contain the missing recommends so that
> > > people with more BW can just get those
> > 
> > Why don't we provide a full (8 GB) DVD image completely stuffed with
> > packages?  Not only a combination of the alternate, server, and desktop
> > CDs, every language pack and recommends, but also outfitted with the
> > most popular non-main packages as well?
> 
> A list of "the most popular non-main packages" would be interesting to look
> at.
> 
> Oddly enough, http://popcon.ubuntu.com/universe/by_vote is not that.  A
> quick glance shows that it contains lots of packages which are actually in
> main.
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I'm investigating this and it should be fixed by tomorrow (the extact
time will depend on how long it takes to reprocessing the data).

Cheers,
 Michael