Hi, list. I'm on a brainstorm for my website work, and I got to thinking of a few of ideas for Fedora that I believe would make it even cooler. I know FC6 is just heading out of the proverbial door, but I'd like to get discussion going on FC7+ things so that they will rock that much harder when implemented (if, in fact, they are). Firstly, there was talk at one point about switching the default RPM build flags to use -Os (optimize for size, mostly) instead of -O2. For one, this could potentially reduce the ISO sizes significantly. (I don't have any specific numbers, but as I recall the estimate was something of the ~300 MB range, give or take.) Also, this would mean that applications would potentially feel faster because less would need to be read from disk, and hits to processor cache would be increased, as well as being able to store more in the RAM caching. Is this planned for the FC7/8 timeframe? If not, is there a plan to implement such a thing at all, if even for specific packages that would benefit from it? Secondly, the current setup of Pirut is that it downloads things from the network whenever you go to install something. Is there work being done to be able to use the installer DVDs/CDs as optional repositories for this? (That way, a user whose Internet connection is slow or non-functional would be able to install packages from the discs, rather than the net. Tangential to this point actually, is a third point: Are there planes to have a packages CD/DVD of sorts which contains a snapshot of Extras packaging? I think this would also be a definite plus, as many of the packages in Extras are rather large (especially much of the game data for things like Nexuiz and Tremulous)... Thanks! -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479 My Blog: http://thecodergeek.com/blog/
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