Re: Change how debian-cd include recommended packages?

[Petter Reinholdtsen]
> > Any comments? Any idea how to change debian-cd to make it behave
> > this way?
>
> I believe this patch solve it. It will first check all the packages
> listed in the OR list to see if any of them are already included. If
> none of them are included, the first of the acceptable packages is
> added. I'm testing this with Debian Edu now. It got rid of quite a
> few unwanted packages. :)

I think you should probably _always_ include at least the first alternative so that the package tools can have the chance to figure out what the optimal solution is for a given set of packages.

Note that this issue is related to #410418. A few patches have been tried recently for this, but those broke full CD images. The issue has been discussed a few times and Sledge's conclusion is that, since the rewrite of debian-cd for Etch (3.0 release), list2cds may no longer be the correct place to implement this. Also somewhat related is: #451237.

Here is some of the conversation:

 debian-cd v3.x moves the whole dependency stuff from the list2cds stage to later in the chain
 so we (OK, I) need to think about it some more in make_disc_trees
 list2cds is now *just* for sorting
: OK. So l2cd could do a bit less dep checking then?
 fjp: yep
 we now don't pretend to know what will fit up-front in list2cds
 so we need the full list in make_disc_trees
 I looked into this ~ 8 months ago and it hurt my brane

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