Thanks everyone for your replies.
Can't believe Colin Watson himself replied my question. It's been a while,
last time he answered my questions was in year 1999~2000, when all Linux
discussions were in the NG. I remember the name by then because the answers
had deep insights.
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014
On 02/17/2014 04:26 PM, Tong Sun wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have never taken a closer look at what's inside the Lubuntu CD, until
> now when I discovered that there is bunch of packages on the CD that is
> not packed in the filesystem.squashfs file. There are *quite* a few of
> them (ref 1).
>
> What'
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 04:26:26PM -0500, Tong Sun wrote:
> I have never taken a closer look at what's inside the Lubuntu CD, until now
> when I discovered that there is bunch of packages on the CD that is not
> packed in the filesystem.squashfs file. There are *quite* a few of them
> (ref 1).
>
>
Hi,
I have never taken a closer look at what's inside the Lubuntu CD, until now
when I discovered that there is bunch of packages on the CD that is not
packed in the filesystem.squashfs file. There are *quite* a few of them
(ref 1).
What's the purpose of having those packages loose on the disk in
