Mike McCarty wrote: > First, one may not have reliable connections, so downloading an image > piece by piece using, say, wget -c is viable, while failing a yum > install isn't restartable. Yes, it is.... If yum fails during the download phase and you run it again it will skip the packages it has previously downloaded. > Second, one may not have a large piece of disc to devote just to > downloading a huge ISO image, while one may be able to do 700MB pieces > one by one. > > Others may occur to you. I suppose one could sit around all day throwing up roadblocks to anything. > >> It seems to me that one CD and several packages add later, the way it >> is for >> F7, would be easier and faster to download and install. What am I >> missing? > > See above. > > Mike -- Paranoia is simply an optimistic outlook on life.
