On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 06:18:09AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > How do we determine what's important, and what's optional ? > > Some people already mentioned that we need to distinguish between > certain packgages. > > I propose: [...]
I think we should play a simple game of numbers, and I think FTP statistics are a good place to get those numbers :) Simply start with the most popular package, and pull in all of its dependencies. Then continue with the next-most-popular package that isn't already included, and pull in its dependencies. And so on... stop when the next package+dependencies won't fit any more on the first CD. I'd rather not make any discrimination based on which section/priority the package maintainer thought the package should be in. "extra" contains some rather useful packages (like sendmail) while "optional" contains many less-popular niche packages. Hmm, but I guess we'll also want to force 'base' in there whether it's popular or not :) I can't promise anything, but I _think_ I should have time to write a script like this next weekend... if someone doesn't beat me to it. It should be a pretty easy job of parsing the Packages and FTP statistics. The dependencies will be the hardest part, but still a much easier job than the APT and gdselect people have had... Since this script will only really be useful to CD-makers, this project would be mostly independent of dpkg-multicd or whatever. Have fun, Avery
