Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 14, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > It is my impression from my visits in the Fall (although I do not have > any hard data to support it) that in India and Indonesia network access > is generally so slow that even if computers have DVD drives the common > media downloaded and used is CD. This

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-05-14 at 11:22am, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 14, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > It is my impression from my visits in the Fall (although I do not > > have any hard data to support it) that in India and Indonesia > > network access is generally so slow that even if computers have DVD > >

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Philip Charles
On 14/05/12 21:22, Marco d'Itri wrote: On May 14, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: It is my impression from my visits in the Fall (although I do not have any hard data to support it) that in India and Indonesia network access is generally so slow that even if computers have DVD drives the common media

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Lun 14 May 2012 07:30:30 Jonas Smedegaard escribió: [snip] > I wish people would collaborate more. > > I wish people would care more about efficient use of resources. Me too :-) > I did not claim that there was great sense behind that usage pattern, > but I do claim that it is reality in some

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Joey Hess
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Indeed, I have seen that pattern before, although I think it was because > people are used to get CDs, not DVDs (ie, just a matter of habit). Another reason is that it's more likely for a throwaway USB key to be in the 1-2 gb range than the 5 gb range.

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 10:26:13PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > On Dom 13 May 2012 21:40:10 Marco d'Itri escribió: > [snip] > > Does anybody actually know that people routinely try to install desktop > > systems with only a CD and no networking, and why? > > What is the use

Bug#672941: cdrom: There is neither XFCE (nor LXDE) in Wheezy xfce+lxde-CD-1.iso

2012-05-14 Thread Fab
Package: cdrom Severity: normal Tags: d-i I'm referring to the iso file created in 2012-05-07 http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing- amd64-xfce+lxde-CD-1.iso I expected to find XFCE and LXDE packages in this iso. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.4