On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 04:14:46PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Then I'm going to make DVD#1 limit to 4GB for amd64, i386 and the >> amd64/i386 m-a DVD. Then it'll fit on a 4GB stick too, and I think >> that's useful. The rest of the set will still fill up to the normal >> 4.7GB DVD size, as there's no point to keeping to that limit on later >> discs. Other arches and source DVDs will also not be affected - >> there's also no point messing with them AFAICS. Please correct me if >> you think I'm wrong here! >> >> For a 1GB or 2GB (or even 8GB/16GB) image, we *can* add more builds >> targetted to fit those sizes, but I would rather make those be totally >> separate builds; they're not close enough to any of the current >> standard sizes that we generate IMHO. >> >> Thoughts? > >A good general principle would be to not add custom sizes that are >smaller than the size of the typically well-tested CD media. A 500mb >iso is likely to be nearly useless because it will never fit Gnome, for >example, and so will end up having to download nearly as much from the >network as would a netinst iso.
Absolutely. I'm also tempted to declare for Wheezy onwards that we can't support single-CD installations for KDE and Gnome anyway - single CDs are just not big enough any more for a full(ish) featured desktop. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110301144634.gh5...@einval.com
