command-not-found appropriate for standard?

[Scott Kitterman]

On Wednesday, August 18, 2010 07:04:56 am Colin Watson wrote:
> 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?

If I'm remembering the definition of standard correctly, I don't think command-
not-found really fits and so in theory, I think it should be removed from 
standard, OTOH, I do find it useful and think it should be shipped on all 
flavors I can think of.  Removing it from standard and immediately seeding it 
on all flavors seems more than a little like make work, so I'd leave it as is.

Scott K