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InstaUp2Date vanilla.catalog

I am updating the vanilla.catalog file to reflect the updates that came out yesterday (just after I got done with my latest image...). In do so I did two things: I made sure that we only have required updates in there, so there should be no un-needed updates. The second thing is that I switched all of the packages to point at Apple's new server scheme so that the addresses will probably last longer. I do like the new URLs in that they have the post date on them (helpful when you are trying to keep track of those sorts of things). But while combing through things I realized that I have had the HP printer drivers in there for a while. That works out great in my environment as we use HP printers almost exclusively here so I need them in my images no matter what. But it is an extra 500 MB for people who may have disabled those printers. So I am thinking of removing the line from the vanilla.catalog file, but don't want to pull the rug out from under people who may be depending on that. So if anyone has strong opinions on this, I would love to hear them now. I am probably going to remove it from the SVN version today, but that can easily be reverted if people can convince me that it is a good idea to keep in. Please note: The vanilla.catalog at current is assuming that you are using something before 10.5.6 as your base OS disk. Apple has just released a new retail disk with 10.5.6 (available with the "Mac Box" package) and I have no idea how this will interact with getting the 10.5.6 update and a few others put on top of it. I am trying to get such a disk, but don't have it at this point. 10.5.7 will probably iron out any problems for us in this regard.
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