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). > > What's the purpose of having those packages loose on the disk instead of > installing them and have them in compressed squashfs file?
They're installed conditionally depending on exactly what the installer needs to do. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss