Comment 4 for bug 1984151
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| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote Re: Cdimage website oversized commet missing | #4 |
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(Get the code!)
It would certainly be more convenient for us to maintain this code if there were a single size limit that applied everywhere!
Unfortunately since we are no longer bound by specific media (CDs) as a general size limit for images, we allow each flavor to define their own limits for how big the image should be, based on their particular user community's needs and the actual rate of growth of the software they use. The warnings nowadays are primarily there to let the flavor developers know their images have grown beyond expectations so that they can manage this growth in the fashion most suitable for them.
We could set a single size limit for a common commodity USB stick size, and that would be enough for all images (except perhaps UbuntuStudio, which might want 8GB instead of 4GB). But that doesn't mean all users should have to download 4GB of data to be able to use each flavor!
The one thing that I think is a real bug here is that the text of the warning on cdimage refers to specific media sizes and should be amended to be clearer / more generic.