* Frank Terbeck ft@grml.org [111228 13:43]:
And finally: I am not a fan of the grml96 ISOs and I was only realising that they existed after the release. Here is why I don't like them: The cleaned up package list leaves us with huge amounts of free space on a standard blank CD. It would be trivial to say "What, you'd like afio back? Well. No problem. Readded it. Get tomorrows daily image."
Now there is a new artificial limit: If we add a lot of new packages, then grml96 may overflow. And if that limits what we'd include in our images, that would be *quite* unfortunate to say the least.
I can see us releasing a single ISO, with a 32bit userland and kernels for 64bit and 32bit for maybe the next or next-next release. Ulrich is pushing hard for this, and (while I don't necessarily like it) I think that's the correct way forward for the time being (read: as long as i386 still lives).
I realise, that grml96 may contain a completely different set of packages then the single-arch package. But I wouldn't want to diverge too much, because it would lead to confusion and pain. And it's trivial to create a bootable medium with both architectures using, say, grml2usb.
(As others have pointed out, grml96 is basically the result of a grml2usb/grml2iso call.)
-ch