Hi
why should any install of any distribution require more than one cd?I think everyone would agree that having a single CD minimalistic installation would be a good thing to do and the general trend is towards that but its a question of balances and the definition of what Fedora Core should be. If you retain only the defaults in Fedora Core what segment should it cover. Should it be just the basic tools on a fuzzy definition of what consitutes the "Linux platform" ? should it be server/desktop/ development oriented? Is XFCE or Fluxbox a target?. Should GCC and family be included?. Does Openoffice.org replace Abiword?. Is a DTP application like Scribus considered a desktop application or a niche target?. Does GNOME include a good CD burner?. What are the potential alternatives?. Should we include both Emacs and Vim?
As you can see there are a large number of questions that one should think about before slimming down the installation. The effects of previous dicussion on Fedora-devel is already visible in the development tree and in Fedora Core 4 when its released. What one might consider bloat is someone else favorite application. If you are interested in contributing, sane well thought posts to the fedora-devel list and a patch against comps.xml file would be good.
regards Rahul
