Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 11:39:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Jimmy Olgeni <olgeni@FreeBSD.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Cc: <freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.org> Subject: XFree86-4 & ISO Message-ID: <20010824214923.Q56582-100000@olgeni.olgeni>
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Hi! I see that we have XFree-4 on the first ISO, both in single-package and multi-package form: this adds much bloat to the already crowded CD. * The multiple package set is never needed as a dependency: we current do not ship packages compiled for XFree4 because XFree4 is not installed by default (and let's leave it this way: see xf86cfg) * The monolithic package currently has some security fixes that the multiple set lacks. * If you really want to install XFree4, chances are that you want the full working version, at the cost of having maybe some more fonts that you won't need. I think that the multiple package set may go away from the CD, freeing some space to add some applications that people usually expect to find (like the recently added rsync). In my opinion, the set of applications on the first CD needs to be more "formalized". We currently have a very small set of "granted" applications, and the rest is more of a lottery. For example, the RC1 ISO only has very very few gnome packages. Is the current packages script actually used in ISO releases? :) I made a new print-cdrom-packages.sh script which should take into account some of the common libraries, applications, development tools and build dependencies. Unfortunately, KDE and Gnome take so much space :( Comments are welcome. I'm currently working on a package set for CD#3 (with larger stuff like TeX) (script at http://people.freebsd.org/~olgeni/print-cdrom-packages.sh, about 415MB worth of packages) -- jimmy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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