Re: PROPOSAL: Core size reduction "bug day"

[Michael Tiemann <tiemann redhat com>]

Do you at least agree that my definition of Extras--the maximal set of
consistent packages, puts a bound on how out of hand components can
get?  I.e., there's still a normalizing force to be "in", even if that
"in" is much larger a circle than core.

M

On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 10:57, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 02 Aug 2004 02:30:45 -0300, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva redhat com> wrote:
> > The nice thing with this arrangement is that components would have
> > names that people could easily choose whether to download, and they
> > could burn them into CDs however they like.
> 
> Great! an infinite number of possible ways to burn cd images
> incorrectly and nearly impossible for other people to troubleshoot!  I
> take it you volunteer to close all those bugzilla bugs that will be
> filed when people download the gnome component together with the emacs
> component and burn them both to the same disk incorrectly with nero
> :->
> 
> >  The downside is that the
> > installer gets more complex, and it may have to go through all
> > available media twice; once before the package selections, once for
> > the actual installation.
> 
> I think there is also a system memory cost associated to doing it this
> way in the installer.
> If burning components to CD means anaconda will have to require
> significantly more memory even in text mode.. to remember the
> package/cdimage matrix is that much customization worth it?
> 
> -jef"thinks this fedora components idea is sounding more and more like
> the medicare discount drug cards...complex choices and confusion
> requiring all users to be orders of magnitude more informed to make it
> work for them."spaleta
>