>On 2014-01-16, Matt M <cmorrow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> There isn't any reason all the packages couldn't fit on a cd. Most are just
>> a few bytes to a few kb, and a small number are into a few MB. Browsing the
>> package list (for i386), it looks like the largest one might be 4mb.
>
>Unfortunately we can only include a *very* small part of the package
>collection on the release CDs.
>
>The set of packages for 5.4 on the ftp site is nearly 40GB just for i386
>and amd64 (and as usual, -current and so the next release 5.5 will be
>bigger). For packages, you're talking one layer of a bluray disk per
>arch, there's no way they will fit on a CD or even DVD.
(a) if you study past release CDs, you will see different space saving policies
have been done in different generations. For the last one, we decided to
shine a bit by introducing more architectures, rather than more packages.
(we == naddy and I; there's a pile of reasons for the decision)
(b) we are moving towards signed packages...
