--- Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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! > Hello; being stuck with dial-up I vote for door #2. That way all dependencies are resolved locally (on the CD's). I can then purchase a set from someone on the net. Instead of searching all over the net at 56k. Also all files will be .rpm not a dreaded mixture of .tar and rpms. This should help avoid version conflicts and missing libraries. BTW - U.S. reseller recommendations anyone? I would also like to see the dvd/mp3 issue resolved in the Extras CD. Mick M. ===== The glass is exactly twice as large as it needs to be. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html
