On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 11:52 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > >I'd prefer if a "1CD-Fedora" was to contain only those packages a user > >needs to be able to bring up his system to the point, where he can > >configure it and download additional packages from the net. > > > >I.e. I'd prefer a 1CD-Fedora not to be much more than an extended > >"installer/bootstrap CD". > > > > > This does not work for many regions in the world where net access is > limited or extremely costly. I am living in such a region - Here, bandwidth is the limiting factor. Also, IMO it is a fact that Fedora already is not reasonably usable without low cost net access ;) > Such as a CD is also not useful target in > itself for redistribution. Why not? You would ship such a CD and would ship additional CDs containing snapshots of subsets of the yum repositories. A "Fedora Office CD", e.g. would contain a repository snapshot of openoffice, firefox etc. and all of their infrastructure. To be able to apply this what would be required is yum being able to handle CDs, or users to copy the repo-on-CD to a reachable filesystem. > You cant get into do anything useful for > anybody without downloading stuff from the net first. For that there is > already a boot.iso image which provides a network installation option. Well, boot.iso is not what I am talking about. I am talking about a CD that installs a system up to the point where all system-config* tools can be launched, /etc/sysconf/* can be configured, other /etc/* files can be edited, a web browser be launched and a graphical frontend to yum can be run. I.e. in the end, a user would end with a running X11 under a "sysadmin user" and "be clicking together" his "custom setup". > >I feel you seem to be mixing up "1CD-distro" with "FC vs. FE" and > >"RH-maintained vs. community-maintained", here. In my understanding > >there actually is no real connection between these topics at all. > > > > > I meant for example that one of the targets such as Fedora GNOME could > by build by the Fedora Core team while leaving rest of the other > potential variations like Fedora KDE or Fedora XFCE build by the rest of > the community using infrastructure or tools provided within the Fedora > Project. IMO, there is no reason to put GNOME in a privileged position. Those parts of it which are requirement of a "minimal install" are inevitable but anything else is waste of disc space. The same applies to GCC, python, Perl, ... simply any package. Ralf
