I'm fairly tired of this discussion (and of an even more annoying 
political email discussion at work) so I'm ready to step out since the 
only thing I actually care about personally is that the packages aren't 
in the stream themselves and that side of the argument seems to be well 
represented.

Doug Way wrote:
[...]
> I think the convenience prompt is important because a lot of people 
> don't follow the list closely and may not know about the existence of 
> the "upgrade to full" script for example.  The prompt will make it 
> extra-easy for someone to have a Full image following the update stream 
> without figuring out what they need to load.

I'll just throw in one more time though that they don't need the upgrade 
to full script if they download the full image.  And unless you're going 
to put an update into the stream to load the full packages every time 
you put an image up, how are people ever going to see that prompt?  If 
you put that prompt in as update X, any future image that already has 
update X will never show the prompt.

It seems like you'd be much better to have a menu option on the world 
menu or something that would load all the full packages - that way you 
don't need to know about the load script.  If for some reason you 
download the base image instead of the full image (why would you?) you 
can stumble (or find in the docs) the menu item to load them.

> (I suppose that whenever we remove more packages from the image via the 
> update stream in the future, we could include a similar prompt to 
> re-load them for folks who want to keep following with a Full image.)
> 
> How does this sound? :-)

Still sounds a little convoluted to me.  But like I said, I've made my 
case and I leave others to debate its merits. :)

Off to a hopefully relaxing lunch,

Julian