Nicu Buculei wrote:
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Software shelved:
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20050711#1
It has been that mentioned many packages like Abiword, Exim, XEmacs
and XFCE has moved into extras as a effort to reduce bloat and this
would be a problem for users who want to retrieve such packages over
a dial up connection. I dont buy this argument. Lets assume for a
moment that Fedora Core 4 included all of these packages in a 5 CD
collection without moving anything to the extras repository, would
users with a dial up connection be able to download it then?.
This argument is valid. Dial-up users does not download isos over
their dial-up connection, they either 1) download at other place (at
work, a friend), 2) borrow and copy the discs or 3) wait (in my
country like 3 or 4 months after a release) for a computer magazine to
come out with the discs included. So for them the content of the
install set is very important.
1) and 2) can be done for individual packages too. In fact for both
these cases, downloading what they want instead of whole ISO images
makes a lot more sense
regards
Rahul
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