I threw this out to get people thinking about alternatives and this idea seems to require minimal recoding. Real repositories and categories will help those of us with broadband, but I don't think it deals with the media install issues at all. One person suggested moving to DVDs. The doesn't work because a LOT of people don't have DVD burners yet. Heck one old codger I know doesn't have a DVD reader. I like minimizing the install and doing as much as possible after the fact, but again that same old codger doesn't have broadband, so he really needs CDs. How many disks you need to install depends on how well the groups are categorized. If you want the minimal install and do the rest over the net, then you're surely going to be downloading fewer discs. Hopefully the "minimal" install corresponds to the base OS case listed above, so it's the fewest number of discs. Even if you do download all 6+ partially full disks, who cares? It's the same amount of data as 4 packed ones. You just need to burn a bit more media or do a local network/disk install. Getting the CD boundaries right is the tricky part. No setup is going to work for everyone, and it is going to suck if you need one package from that extra disk, but there's no way to avoid that problem, and with a reasonable breakdown it seems to help many users. - |Daryll
