On Feb 27, 2005, Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 04:22 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On Feb 26, 2005, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I believe extras functions b/c they are are over 901 packages in >>> extras. > [snip] >> Sure having CDs of Extras available for download would address part of >> the problem: people would still be able to ask friends with big pipes >> to download and burn CDs for them. But how convenient is the >> experience of installing packages from such CDs be? Anaconda won't be >> able to install packages from such CDs; will system-config-packages? > Yes. And firstboot even asks for such CDs. And has since before Fedora > existed :) Yeah, I know. But firstboot doesn't run for kickstart installs, for one, and kickstart can't use Extras CDs, so you're stuck with doing the post-install stage by hand. Yuck. Also, see the other points about making the CDs available in a form that won't get users in dependency hell. What if I want to install a package from an Extras CD that depends on a Core package that I didn't install? Will it let me know which Core CD contains it? -- 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}
