On 05/08/2010 06:31 AM, drago01 wrote: > The installation DVD is for installing the system that's it. That's only part of it. There's around 4GB of data, and more than a few persons would like to use via PackageKit after the initial install, too. I frequently install just the "Internet Desktop", then add other packages days or weeks later. > Installing software from it afterwards is pointless anyway as updates > might cause dep conflicts and or provide newer/fixed versions anyway. Updated media are produced by others. For instance, Fedora Unity produced an updated DVD of Fedora 12 as of March 3: http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins Using pungi I generate an updated DVD in about half an hour (after updating my cache of the .rpm.) In many many second- and third-world places outside of larger cities, high-speed internet is only a dream. In the US there are several million persons whose fastest internet connection is a 53 Kbit/second dialup modem, and tens of millions with only 1.5 Mbit/second DSL. A physical DVD via postal mail (or borrowed from a neighbor) is much faster, particularly when something doesn't work correctly the first time. Practical progress: Looking at the bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435625 (installation media support in PackageKit) it seems to me that much of the angst involves split media (mounting multiple CDs.) Why not implement major partial progress by requiring that a single platter [only] be mounted before invoking PackageKit? Then a DVD or the correct CD (typically one of five or six) succeeds, otherwise you get told which platter to mount before trying again (perhaps accumulating .rpms in a temporary on-disk repo, etc.) This is not a slick-and-shiny-100% solution, but it can work. -- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
