On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 23.10.2008 18:56, Jesse Keating wrote: >> > Neither will the meaning of 'minimal' be. Will it have networking? >> > Will it have yum? Will it have ssh? Will it speak my language? So on, >> > and so forth. >> >> Not sure if my mind plays tricks with me, but I got the impression >> that I hear something like the above as a "shoot the discussion down" >> argument every few days right now... This is starting to annoy me, as >> statements like the above don't lead anywhere: Decisions have to be >> made; repeatably pointing out that it's hard to do them doesn't bring >> us a tiny bit further. So please: >> >> Just let a group of interested people make a decision and realize it >> as a feature for F11! Then we hopefully can get rid of this topic >> (which seems to pop up every few weeks...). > > That /has/ been done (yes, I've been around since Red Hat 3.x days), and it > made /never/ everybody happy, thus the recurring flamewars on the > topic. When they say here that it _can't_ be solved it is not out of > lazyness, it is out of (often bitter) experience. > > What is minimal for me is sorely lacking while barroquely bloated for the > next interested party. > -- > Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org > Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 > Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 > Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 2340000 Fax: +56 32 2797513 > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > I have to agree with Jesse and Horst because I remember the "minimal" install option too and any option I chose always disappointed because I found I had to add stuff to the minimal installs and remove stuff from the other installs. So I like what we currently have more. It builds up less expectation and therefore disappoints less. ;-) And that is all you can hope for given the extreme visability of the feature. -- Mat Booth www.matbooth.co.uk -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
