command-not-found appropriate for standard?

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Wed Aug 18 12:04:56 BST 2010


In the foundations-m-spring-cleaning session at UDS, somebody (at this
point I forget exactly who) enquired whether command-not-found was
appropriate in ubuntu-standard.  This is installed on all Ubuntu systems
other than those created using a bare debootstrap.  Together with its
data package, command-not-found comes to about 1MB of .deb size and
about 2.5MB of installed size (though the actual live CD space consumed
is probably closer to the .deb size, due to compression).

I have no particular agenda on this one way or the other; CD space is
finite, but command-not-found is a pretty useful way to answer people's
questions (particularly new users) before they need to ask online.  Thus
I'm perfectly OK if the outcome of this is that we just leave it as it
is; but do any flavour maintainers feel that their Ubuntu flavour would
be better off without including command-not-found in its base
installation?

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]



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