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Date:      Wed, 15 Jan 2003 01:05:37 -0500
From:      "Craig Reyenga" <creyenga@connectmail.carleton.ca>
To:        <bmah@freebsd.org>
Cc:        <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.0 RC3 now available
Message-ID:  <002a01c2bc5c$1fdd11b0$0200000a@sewer.org>
References:  <004101c2bc33$69323fd0$0200000a@sewer.org> <3E24B87B.3000709@blueyonder.co.uk> <008901c2bc3f$f9d9b070$0200000a@sewer.org> <200301150419.h0F4Jnoh028561@intruder.bmah.org>

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>No matter what, disc#1 has a finite amount of space and it's going to be
>impossible to come up with a combination of packages that keeps everyone
>happy.  Sooner or later, "popular" comes down to somebody's judgement.
>
>To see what's currently in the package split, look at
>src/release/scripts/print-cdrom-packages.sh (for whatever branch
>interests you).  Note that in addition to the packages listed there, we
>also need to put all of their dependencies on disc#1 as well.  These
>dependencies likely account for a lot of the "small packages and
>ones that are not popular seem to make in on the first CD".
>

Looking at the script, it would appear that the current method used is
simply a combination of the two different ideas. I guess now I should be
saying, "Please add Mozilla and Apache to the script."

>(FYI, the 5.0-RC3 package set occupies 339MB of a 560MB ISO image.)

If the ISO is currently 560MB, then we have 90MB to spare right?

-Craig


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