That was the most sensible answer I have read on this subject to date. Thanks Alexandre Aliva! You expressed exactly how view it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexandre Oliva" <aoliva@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Bill Nottingham" <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 9:55 AM Subject: Re: FC2 test 1 > On Feb 12, 2004, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Alexander Dalloz (alexander.dalloz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > >> Sorry, I meant: stay at 3 binary CDs plus the sources CDs. > > > There's two conflicting schools of thought here: > > > 1) get Extras going, move chunks of Core to Extras, and have > > Core be 2-3 binary CDs > > 2) get Extras going, but put even more stuff in Core, have Core > > go to 5,6,7 CDs > > > Personally, I'd go for door #1. > > Going with #1 means to me that less people will be using test releases > day to day, because stuff they rely on for day to day work will only > be in Extras that will likely not be available for the short life of > test releases. > > Frankly, I don't care too much if the core release grows to more CDs. > Software grows, it's just a fact of life. Having more stuff in the > core means it takes more work to maintain it, but having it in extras > will also require it to be maintained, and will just make it take > longer for a release to be useful for people who rely on stuff that's > only available in extras. > > Of course, ideally it should be possible to not have to have every CD > in order to do a smallish installation. Getting more brains into the > CD layout programs would enable different kinds of installs to use > different sets of CDs (Base system; Gnome/KDE; etc). And the > installer could be improved to enable you to fetch those few missing > packages you'd like to install but don't want to have to download or > burn CDs off the net. This might be easily accomplished by leaving a > note for firstboot to process directing it to install off the net > packages whose CDs the user failed to supply, which would currently > cause the installation to abort. I realize there may be dependency > issues to be addressed here, and maybe even RPM improvements that > would be required, but it would sure be a nice feature to have! > > -- > Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ > Happy GNU Year! oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} > Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} > Free Software Evangelist Professional serial bug killer > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
