CD optimization

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 03:24:22PM +0000, John wrote:
> I was thinking about install speed a little while ago. It's long seemed 
> to me that using debootstrap at install time is flawed: surely just 
> unrolling a tarball is faster?

It would be, but it's significantly more painful to maintain and develop
and would be a retrograde step. Speed of install shouldn't trump
everything.

> Also, order of the packages on the CD should be the same as the install 
> order.

It's pretty close now.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]