Do you at least agree that my definition of Extras--the maximal set of consistent packages, puts a bound on how out of hand components can get? I.e., there's still a normalizing force to be "in", even if that "in" is much larger a circle than core. M On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 10:57, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On 02 Aug 2004 02:30:45 -0300, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The nice thing with this arrangement is that components would have > > names that people could easily choose whether to download, and they > > could burn them into CDs however they like. > > Great! an infinite number of possible ways to burn cd images > incorrectly and nearly impossible for other people to troubleshoot! I > take it you volunteer to close all those bugzilla bugs that will be > filed when people download the gnome component together with the emacs > component and burn them both to the same disk incorrectly with nero > :-> > > > The downside is that the > > installer gets more complex, and it may have to go through all > > available media twice; once before the package selections, once for > > the actual installation. > > I think there is also a system memory cost associated to doing it this > way in the installer. > If burning components to CD means anaconda will have to require > significantly more memory even in text mode.. to remember the > package/cdimage matrix is that much customization worth it? > > -jef"thinks this fedora components idea is sounding more and more like > the medicare discount drug cards...complex choices and confusion > requiring all users to be orders of magnitude more informed to make it > work for them."spaleta >
