For a long time, the Fedora Server Edition has provided a fairly lightweight default installation, but a fairly heavyweight DVD. This is because we opted to include a lot of infrastructure-related content on the disk, such as BIND, FreeIPA, MariaDB and PostgreSQL, among others. The reality these days is that this is probably more or less unnecessary. There's no such thing as a server that is not connected to a network and since we aren't shipping the entirety of the Fedora package collection on this disk, inevitably anyone installing from it is going to need to have access to package mirrors anyway. So I'd like to propose that we get rid of nearly the entirety of the <optionlist> section from comps.xml[1][2] and variants-fedora.xml[3]. The result will be a far smaller install DVD, less space wasted on the mirrors (both for the DVD and the install tree) and very little difference in user experience. Arguments against this have historically been that having it all on one disk is better for network-constrained environments to avoid downloading content multiple times. Realistically, however, I think this is generally going to be solved by local mirroring in most real-world scenarios. [1] https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/blob/master/f/comps-f30.xml.in [2] With the exception of the "server-hardware-support" and "guest-agents" which may be needed for proper installation, depending on the hardware. [3] https://pagure.io/pungi-fedora/blob/master/f/variants-fedora.xml _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
