On Feb 24, 2005, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Has anyone looked at the possibility of having a shared CD or two > between the x86_64 and i386 installs? As good as an idea as it might sound, it poses some interesting infrastructure problems, and it doesn't address the most important issue in my understanding. As for infrastructure, it requires the entire CD set to be regarded as part of the same distro spin, as opposed to having each arch being spun separately as it stands now. This is why you see different SRPMS isos for x86_64 and i386, for example, and why fedora-release has a different build number between them. Yes, this would be great to fix, and would further reduce the amount of space mirrors get to carry. In fact, fixing this is probably *far* more important that cutting out half a CD from the i386 binary set. As for the most important issue, which is the i386 CD count, it won't make any difference: CD distributors will still have to print 5 instead of 4 CDs to offer the complete FC4/i386. Not that I find this all that important, personally, nor that I agree with the current pursuit of such goal, but I thought I'd point out that it unfortunately fails to help. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
