command-not-found appropriate for standard?

[Mathias Gug]

Hi Colin,

Excerpts from Colin Watson's message of Wed Aug 18 07:04:56 -0400 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?
> 

IMO the command-not-found package is very useful for server
installation. So I'd like to keep it when a system is installed from the
-server iso.

-- 
Mathias Gug
Ubuntu Developer  http://www.ubuntu.com