Am Sonntag, den 12.12.2004, 16:52 -0500 schrieb Dave Jones: > > Since the drives supporting larger dvd sizes are currently available but the > > media is relatively expensive, I would like to suggest that, for FC4, a > > second dvd ISO be created which just has the SRPMS. This would allow an > > individual to cut two dvd disks but would be consistent by having everything > > available on those two dvd disks. > > Alternatively, for FC4, how about we trim down 'core' and push more > things out to extras ? Hopefully by the time FC4 ships we'll have > a working extras infrastructure. I would vote against any trim down of Fedora Core just because of the numbers of source CD's. Given the fact of a lot of non-cooperation between several community based repos, Core should include all the programs needed for a basic workstation - at least currently. Instead trimming down you should consider to add packages like tomcat again - and perhaps some web applications as byline (formerly Red Hat CMS). If space is a problem for the mirrors, you should suspend the source iso's instead. I suppose there are only very few people who need the complete set of source packages. Most people need none and some may need some selected packages they are interested in. I think it's ok to have all the packages as single files in the OS tree. Peter