On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 10:06 -0700, Craig White wrote: > What you don't get from the bugzilla entry but can get from parsing > the developers list is that they are trying to shed packages from > Fedora Core and push them out to 'Extras' and make 'core' truly just > the core This I strongly agree with. Prior "minimum" installs certainly haven't been so. I'd personally like to see it only necessary to download one smallish ISO to install an "Operating System". Let me do something extra to install any applications. There's bound to be plenty of people who want a box that only does one or two things, that don't need umpteem gigs of stuff, at all. > and 'install everything' is less valuable as they succeed in doing > that. What you don't get if you don't read the developers list is > what is that they don't even agree on what is meant by 'install > everything' To me, I'd have thought install "everything" meant literally just that. But it's clearly not a reasonable thing to do. If you really did install absolutely everything, you'd be installing stuff that just wasn't usable, at the very least (kernels not for your CPU, etc.), and there's bound to be things that are completely incompatible with each other. Installing a really good database about what's available, what it does, etc., would be a good thing to offer. Far more useful than just dumping everything and the kitchen sink. The comment about languages is one that's close to the bone, here. I'd like a separate user-interface/localisations section, like we have office, internet, etc. Where you'd choose packages related to languages, locales, international fonts, non-visual support, etc. They're all related, but not all needed by all people. e.g. You might only need one locale for your country's conventions, but (you or all your users) can read numerous languages, and you might want the fonts for every language that might appear in web pages. Being able to pick and choose would be useful. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
