On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:26:33AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > Michael Favia wrote: > >Matthias Saou wrote: > > > >>It doesn't fit on regular 4.7GB DVD-Rs :-( The i386 DVD ISO is smaller > >>and > >>probably fits (I hope so, as I downloaded it too!), but the x86_64 one > >>definitely doesn't... is this a known problem? > >> > >This issue is being echoed throughout the #fedora channel as well. It is > >common if not yet well known. > > > > The only way we can solve this problem is by trimming the distribution. > A bunch of broken java related stuff was removed from rawhide > yesterday, and I'm working on reducing package sizes across the board by > removing useless or redundant documentation. Why not provide a DVD for binaries and one for source rpms? I doubt the demand for src.rpms is even remotely comparable to that for the binary DVD, and you get o less traffic on the Red Hat/Fedora mirrors, as users will only download half a DVD (well, not half, but you get the idea). o less space wasted (one src.rpm DVD for all archs would be sufficient, even if not all src.rpm can be built on all archs). o Developers don't need to feel the damoclean sword chopping over their heads, if they intend to add something bigger to the distribution. Castrating the distribution (like throwing out kernel-sourcecode) or not accepting new packages due to DVD size constraints looks quite wrong to me. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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