On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This is all fine and cool, but it is not going to help at all around the > basic fact that an ever-growing percentage of the cd (is it 30% ?, maybe > even more) is eaten by localization (translations, fonts, dictionaries). Yes, we will have to tackle that at some point. I am hopeful that it will get some work done at the underlying OS (rpm etc) level because it seems pretty important for virt/appliance-OS scenarios, and those people make money. >> And in addition to these, we generate a 2GB sized "full" install >> (hopefully @gnome-desktop fits in 2G...) which could also go on a 3+GB >> USB key or a DVD. This image is spun as the "Full" installer. > > Noo, I don't want to see more alternatives. We already have the big > problem right now that people choose to download the largely > unmaintained DVD, just because it is bigger, and thus must be better... By "DVD" you mean Standaconda-on-DVD, right? My guess is the biggest reason is it's simply listed first, but yes; once we have a larger Live image, that obviates one of the reasons Standadonda DVD exists[1] > Also, how exactly do you think a 'full' install is going to differ from > the regular live image ? Mostly, it is going to add redundancy and > things that we didn't include for a reason, no ? No, a Full install is @gnome-desktop. > I don't think we want to have a situation of > Live CD - minimal install, missing important things > Full DVD - all the crap > > I'd rather see us work on a single image and try to make that as good as > we can, instead of working on two suboptimal images. I see it more like we should be sure that @gnome-desktop is good, and then work within the constraints of the CD size to provide the best that we can do. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Desktop/Whiteboards/UnifiedInstaller -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
