On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 01:26 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2008/10/30 12:41 (GMT+1000) Chris Jones composed: > > > And as mentioned already, anyone who uses mc will probably not be using > > it off a live cd anyway. > > Any time I boot a Knoppix CD it's a virtual certainty that the first thing I > do once it finishes booting is start MC. I boot Knoppix to fix things, and MC > is my main tool for generic fixing. A live CD without MC is like a tool chest > that contains no wrench or socket that fits the most common bolt sizes, and > no fitsall wrenches either.
Except the Ubuntu Desktop CD isn't intended as a recovery disc. A Knoppix CD (which doesn't have the constraint that it should give a preview of a full Ubuntu install) is full of useful recovery programs. You appear to be complaining that the Ubuntu live CD isn't a good recovery disc, which is a reasonable statement. It's not really intended to be, so your follow up "so you should add some things to make it a good recovery disc" *isn't* a reasonable request when the CD is already full. If there were space enough to allow us to ship a Desktop CD that was both a full Ubuntu install *and* a good recovery disc, you could reasonably argue that we should ship mc on there. However there simply *isn't* enough space; the Desktop CD is an endless fight to fit onto a CD. Even if Midnight Commander could automatically fix every problem that could ever occur on any system, it *still* wouldn't get on the Desktop CD as a recovery tool!
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