command-not-found for standard? enthropy

[Paul Sladen]

On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Colin Watson wrote:
> data package, command-not-found comes to about 1MB of .deb size

   12 kB of python, 1MB of data.  8kB of changelogs.

> better off without including command-not-found in its base installation?

'command-not-found' is one of early bits of *innovation* that came out of
Ubuntu to the point of being adopted by other distributions.  In a way, it
typifies Ubuntu's "just works" mantra and quest for ease of use.

It is what allows us to get away with just shipping a subset of software (a
single CD-ROM full) and not getting complaints---the infrastructure informs
the user what action they need to take to complete their desired task if
those bits of software weren't on the CD to be begin with.

> and about 2.5MB of installed size

The source text from rookery is 1MB, this is converted to 2.5 MB of database
files---something unnecessary for what is essentially a grep operation and
less ammenable to compression.