Suggestions on packages to add to Ubuntu "main"

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Thu Oct 14 03:05:02 UTC 2004


On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 01:29:28PM -0400, Tim Hull wrote:

> To include these would take up something like:
> kernel-image 48MB (for 686)
> kernel-headers 17MB (for 686)

This is already over 1/3 of the remaining space, and for very minimal
benefit.  We would prefer to reserve that space for new and improved
applications.

> kde-core 22.8MB
> winmodem drivers total 10-20MB
> captive ntfs (would have to be added to ubuntu - not currently in debian 
> - 15MB

> This probably would fit on 1 CD.

We are not in a hurry to fill the CD to capacity, because there will be more
software and documentation added in the future.

-- 
 - mdz




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