Proposal for solving CD Size problems

[Vassilis Pandis]

--- Scott James Remnant <scott at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Rationale:
> 
>   - A CD is not large enough for the kinds of things we want to ship by
>     default already
> 
>   - More features in future releases (such as telepathy, compiz, etc.)
>     mean more space required
> 


I'm not sure I should be even pointing this out to you (considering you wrote it), 
but my ignorance provides an excellent excuse to do so :-) . 

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Dpkg7Zip claims that 

"7zip offers a 24%-27% saving in storage space but is 3 times slower to compress and decompress. A
24% saving would allow a massive 134Mb of addition packages to be added to the standard CD."

Wouldn't this solve the problem ? 


		
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