On Monday, February 02 2009, drago01 said: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sunday, February 01 2009, drago01 said: > >> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Wes Shull <wes.shull@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Olivier Galibert <galibert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > > >> >> 8Gb USB stick, which can hold bootable dvd contents, $15. Your turn. > >> > > >> > So we're leaving the developing world to Ubuntu now? > >> > >> They can/have to use the x86 livecd anyway for their older system. > >> We are talking about moving the x86_64 live spin to a DVD. > > > > The problem then is that there are more configs to maintain. > > Sure but how much extra work does this add? We can reuse the same > kickstart files and add/remove packages where it makes sense. > As for testing both need to be tested anyway. It's a fair bit of extra work because now you have to be thinking about what to substitute in, what you lose by not going with a specific package, and a slew of other things. It's not just "add more junk" because in that case, you'd end up with some duplicates that make the experience _less_ good > >And in > > point of fact, the x86_64 images were larger than CD-sized for a few > > releases and there were more than a handful of complaints from people > > wanting to use them on x86_64 boxes with only CD drives. > > Any pointers to those complains ? This shouldn't be an issue for the > majority of x86_64 boxes (and no I don't talk about boxes without > optical drives). > If there are same rare cases with such hardware they still have the > liveusb option if they don't want to buy a dvd drive/burner. Go back and read the mailing list and forum archives. I certainly wasn't the person pushing it (hell, CDs themselves haven't mattered to me now in a long time), instead, I just was the person that heard all of the complaints. And it's not just about DVD *readers*. It's also about relative pricing of media and scarcity of writers Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
