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The very generic goal of mkcd is to put packages and files into an ISO 9660 image. Of course, it does a bit more than that otherwise more than 8000 lines of perl would have been a bit overkill.

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In late 1999 I took charge of building the Mandrakelinux ISO images (by that time it was name Linux-Mandrake). We then had only one disc for the whole distribution, and the main trouble was to make sure that all the dependencies were verified, and the ISO made correctly. There was a collection of several scripts doing simple tasks (this is what UNIX is about).

With the Linux-Mandrake 7.1, we decided to create a 2 CD installation, then the need to choose were to put packages appeared. The various scripts making the mkcd collection improved to help selecting whic