brainstorming for UDS-N - Package Selection and Defaults

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 03:15:48PM -0400, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:27:57AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > "support" does not imply "include on the CD image".  The point would be to
> > make sure that it is available and usable by the people who rely on it.
> 
> The problem here is that our python handling has been entirely designed
> around the idea that each python extension should be packaged as a single
> python-foo binary package containing support for all supported python
> versions.  So "support" does imply that the binaries for any extensions we
> wish to include in that support, and which are also needed on the CD,
> *will* be included on the CD image, at a fairly significant disk space cost.

Ah, I understand.  So we wouldn't need to ship all of the interpreters on
the CD, but we would end up with some extra payload anyway from the
extension modules.

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 - mdz