is memtest86+ useful in ubuntu-standard ?

[Robert Collins]

On 10 December 2013 14:47, Scott Moser <smoser at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>   Looking at the contents of the cloud images, memtest86+ is one of the
> packages that I questioned the necessity of in a cloud image.
>   That is in the cloud images as cloud images are ubuntu-server and
> ubuntu-standard tasks plus a small amount of other packages.
>
>  memtest86+ was added to standard on 2006-06-20.
>
>  Do we still feel that it is necessary as part of the default install ?
>
>  If people do still feel it is useful as part of the default install, is
> there a reasonable way we can explicitly exlude it from cloud images
> without removing 'ubuntu-standard' ?

I don't see any reason to have it installed. I would like to still
have it on the bootable server CD-roms, it's handy when something is
suspected wrong.

-Rob

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Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com>
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