Hi
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.
That would drive up the cost for redistribution. Fedora Projects ships
CDs/DVDs to many places all over the world.
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.
Its not about GNOME as such but providing a targeted version of Fedora
for desktop users from a single CD. Single CD obviously limits the
choice of a DE. We can pick GNOME, KDE or XFCE and provide the
infrastructure for others to create their own subsets from Core and
Extras repository. Somebody might choose a Games, Educational or even a
Perl edition.
regards
Rahul
