On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 16:16 -0500, Elliot Lee wrote: > > > > Why limit FC4 to 4 CD's? Is it out fear that someone will cry "bloat"? > > If we add another CD: > The companies that create CD sets for magazines or resale will see > their media costs go up by 25%. > > The mirror sites with limited bandwidth and disk space will be > likely to stop mirroring Fedora Core. > > The users who don't want to download and burn another CD will go > elsewhere. > > > If packages were properly distributed among the CD's, one didn't need to > > download all images. I admit I am a bit biased since I use XEmacs > > regularly. I you list I see many java-related packages. Why not bundle > > them into a separate CD? > > Because we don't have the infrastructure/tools to do it properly. > > > Another option would be to retain 4 images and create additional images > > with extras. > > Which means removing things from Core so we can put them in Extras... > -- Elliot > Ok, I understand your reasoning. However I think moving packages from Core to Extras can only be done, if access to Extras is immediate after Core has been installed. Which means: no manual setting up of repository files in /etc/yum.repos.d or /etc/apt. And a usable graphical package manager like synaptic instead of the braindead system-config-packages. As I said, a set of optional Extras CDs, downloadable from the same location as the Core CDs would be a benefit. -- Gérard Milmeister Langackerstrasse 49 CH-8057 Zürich
