On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 00:21 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Great idea Dave, but what about the guys on dialup? Those will still > need the cd's from some cd peddlar just to get to square one. Don't see any way the CD/DVD iso method will become obsolete any time soon, for the reason you cite; however, a continuously-updated repo following the rawhide model, but with stable packages, certainly could help for those with moderate-to-high speed connections. > Overall, the present method has only one achilles heel, and thats the > problem you describe still exists and only gets worse as time goes > for each release. My own personal thoughts on that come down to the > cd and dvd iso's should themselves be replaced with a .1, .2, .3, etc > version at about 2 week intervals, the replacements haveing all the > fixes to date. That way, those of us that tend to wait for > stability, and everything working, could go get a fresh set of cd's a > month later that had the last 3 weeks worth of fixes already applied. Has been discussed and rejected (forget if it was on test or devel list) due to developer/QA overhead in creating the isos. 'Course this may be a reason for rejecting the rolling-update repo as well, but seems that would be less labor-intensive. > This would be a huge help, doing away with what could be half a days > worth of updates once you got it installed. Agree. Sounds like a possible market niche for a 3rd party CD vendor. Phil
