On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 11:23 -0500, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > 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. There is also the issue of multiple providers of a given functionality. When all are present, an algorithm tries to pick the "best" provider, which may not make sense to a human, but every human is different. By breaking up the large package set into a smaller subset, one can short circuit that "best" selection by only having one provider for that given functionality. FEL exists for the reason you stated above, but also as a marketing tool, as it is very easy to install from a Live image, you had somebody a disk and say "install this, you'll have an electronics lab". Much easier than handing them a stack of DVDs and saying "Start this install, select this package here, this group there, remove this package here, format accordingly, and hopefully you got all the right selections done". -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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