On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:14:11PM -0500, Craig Reyenga wrote: > I haven't actually tried 5.0RC3 yet, so what I'm about to say may be > irrelevant, but here goes: > > One thing I noticed in previous releases is that the choice of packages is a > little odd. Many small packages and ones that are not popular seem to make > it on the first CD, while bigger and/or more popular ones are stuck being > fetched+built manually after. This can be a pain on slower computers, > especially with ports such as mozilla and openoffice. I guess what I am > suggesting is that more attention be paid to _which_ ports make in onto CD > #1. Perhaps one way of doing this is to give each port a "pkg-priority" that > the release build scripts scan for. Anyways, that's just my $0.02, might be > $0.00 in this case.
mozilla will probably be included on cd #1, but the openoffice package still does not build automatically (problems with the JDK dependency). Regardless, thousands of packages are included on the other CDs available for purchase, and they're all (6525 on i386) on the FTP site for automatic download with pkg_add -r. Kris
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