Installing recommends and the CD size

[Bryce Harrington]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 09:25:11PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> As a recent example, we recovered an incredible amount of CD space recently
> (IIRC, 8MB vs. hardy, and 14MB vs. the most recent intrepid daily where we
> were running into the problem) by doing the right thing with
> libgweather-common.  When we can still find 1-2% fat to trim with a single
> cut, I don't think it's time to give up on fitting an OS on a CD.
> 
> As for whether we'll recognize when it's time to shift to larger media as
> the default, I have no doubt.  I expect there'll continue to be pressure
> from the other direction, to remind us to revisit the question at least once
> a release cycle. :)

Rather than abandoning the CD altogether, could just move it to being
slightly more "bare bones" as space is needed by replacing a few of the
larger apps with smaller alternatives, or perhaps reducing the total
number of supported languages?

Bryce