On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:35:45 -0500, Michael Tiemann <tiemann@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > +10 Yes i agree, doing things that way would end up meaning +10 partially full isos. This approach snowballs very quickly: office cd desktop-art cd games cd kde cd java cd devel cd emacs cd perl cd All of them optional for a basic fedora install... whatever that means. Now, this approach definitely is a benifit to fresh installers who do targetted installs, and people who are networked with hi-band and can do network installs. But I'm not so sure how an explosion of partially full isos works out for people doing non-networked upgrades or people with low-band who are forced to buy or manufacture mediasets. Those 'optional' disks look highly less optional once you start doing upgrades.. and each extra partially full iso increases the overhead of producing full mediasets for sale or give away. Oh and there has to be a 'clever' way for 'fedora' to tell people which 'optional' cds they are going to want to burn before they burn them. And clever does not mean a flat package list with associated cd #/cd name next to it on the fedora website. Anyone doing an upgrade via mediasets will want to know before they start downloading which 'optional' disks they will continue to need to do the full upgrade. -jef
