brainstorming for UDS-N - Package Selection and Defaults

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> On Friday, October 08, 2010 11:28:53 pm Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
>> On Friday, October 08, 2010 03:55:04 am Matthias Klose wrote:
>> > On 07.10.2010 22:19, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> > > As a policy, I do think it makes sense for us to have one Python
>> > > version overlap between LTS releases.
>> >
>> > Are there concrete examples of these applications for end users (no, I
>> > wouldn't count Launchpad to to it ;).
>> >
>> > 20MB are 2% of the CD space, and I suppose an end user would care more
>> > about shipping something useful like a language pack, another
>> > application, but not a bunch of unused python modules.
>>
>> So don't put it on the cd, but keep in in the archive.  That way, if they
>> need it for compatibility, they can get it, but it's not wasting space for
>> the general case.
>
> Python extensions are built for each supported Python version, so having two
> supported versions doubles the number of Python extension .so files on the CD.
> These are part of the same binary package and so there's no convenient way to
> separate them out.

Oh. I thought the issue was just the python2.6 package :-/


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