On Sun, 2013-06-23 at 09:44 +0200, drago01 wrote:
- We don't have to set a limit at all. Just include the stuff we want
to include (and try to optimize that to be as small as possible).
Let's be realistic: 'trying to optimize that to be as small as possible' only happens when we have a limit and start hitting it. Was anyone checking and splitting out dependencies, tweaking the package set, and looking for unnecessary data to cut out *before* we were filing bugs on the size? Nope, no-one was.
I'm not saying there must be a limit, but I know what's going to happen if there isn't one, don't kid yourself: limitless sprawl, and no-one's going to bother about size reductions.
Just because someone decided "there has to be a size limit and if we don't meet that target we block the release" does not mean that this is the right thing to do (note: it isn't). A limit only makes sense if you target a CD.
As noted in my previous message, we are in fact still targeting optical media with the live images: the multi-live DVD image.