Hi, On 12/01/13 20:07, Praveen A wrote: > I think it is an important enough program to be on cd 1.
Yes probably. A user with only CD1 may need this before they are able to download more packages or CDs. (I would have thought maybe synaptic as well for novice users?). I can think of a few ways this could be achieved: 1. add network-manager-gnome to debian-cd's tasks/wheezy/forcd1 - this is no good though, because forcd1 is used for other desktops and not just the (GNOME) CD1 (apt-offline was added to CD1 for similar reasons to this, see #630805; also #231583: bpalogin, a long time ago); just adding network-manager would not bring in the necessary GUI I think 2. add network-manager-gnome specially to debian-cd's tasks/wheezy/Debian-gnome, after the forcd1 include - after all, we are just trying to manipulate what goes onto CD1. 3. add network-manager-gnome to gnome-core (seems inappropriate) 4. add network-manager-gnome to tasksel's task-gnome-desktop as a required package - would this be sensible? Should a task 'require' something maybe needed by a novice user to set up networking? Out of curiosity, I did some other analysis: based on the popularity-contest file in debian-cd/3.1.10, current wheezy amd64 CD1 only has complete coverage down to rank #148 (libgpm2). And it has an assortment of odd packages all the way down to rank #34291 (caribou-antler). network-manager has rank #869. There are 278 packages with higher popcon than network-manager that are not on CD1. network-manager itself is quite big; it also has a lot of dependencies, but fortunately all are on CD1 already. The unanswered question is still - what would be displaced by placing network-manager-gnome on CD1 The xfce CD has network-manager(-gnome). So if you are limited by bandwidth, this desktop could be a better choice anyway due to lower install size and presumably smaller size of updates during its lifetime. If a machine can only read CD-ROM but not DVD-ROM then it is probably quite resource-constrained, and xfce should be better than gnome3 in this regard also. The (GNOME) CD1 becomes less useful as the distribution grows in size. On download pages and in documentation, I would think it best to promote the various DVD and USB images primarily, followed by either a GNOME CD *set* (suggesting CD1+2 minimum) or a single XFCE/LXDE CD, followed by the mini images for netinst/netboot/console-only etc. There was prior discussion of this at: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2012/11/msg00466.html Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50f2170a.5070...@pyro.eu.org
