On 02/02/2010 09:07 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >>> * A user who downloads any one of these products gets a different experience >>> than someone who downloads one of the others. >>> * Switching from one product to another is not an easy task of merely >>> installing one package group and removing another. You have to know what >>> packages to install and what packages to uninstall and sometimes you also >>> need to know what configuration switches to hit. >> >> spins don't help this situation. >> > They do. I tried to switch from the Desktop spin to the KDE spin in F10 and > ended up without a usable desktop environment. Reinstalled from the KDE > spin and it worked. So "how do you get KDE on your computer?" "Install > the Fedora KDE spin." Easy answer. Spins make sense when there is a deep-reaching feature that touches a majority of packages on the system. Examples include: - the desktop environment with all the supporting runtime libs - I would say 32 and 64-bit environments are two 'spins' - a hypothetical major version of glibc-based 'spin' I don't understand why 'Electronic Design Lab' is a separate spin: if I install all the EDA-related packages that it contains, would I not get an equivalent capability? The only reason I can think of is the media capacity limitation, which forces dropping some packages to make space for someone's desired set which is not already part of the mainstream collection. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
