Jasen Betts wrote in a message to CHARLES ANGELICH:

 CA> The relevance (for me) is when Linux (for instance) makes 700 meg
 CA> ISO image files available for download and thinks they are doing
 CA> everyone a huge favor. :-\

 JB> ISTR that the the folks at Slack or Debian were working on a
 JB> "virtual ISO tool" [my term] that would take a list of packages and
 JB> get them individually and then assemble them into an ISO locally.
 JB> their motive was to reduce server load when a new ISO contains 80%
 JB> of the old ISO's content etc... but it would provide a convenient
 JB> way for low bandwidth users to get large ISOs with less reliance
 JB> on resuming downloads

I like this idea,  particularly since I may only want parts of what's
typically included in a full distro.  No point in downloading stuff that
I'll never use,  if it's configurable that way...

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