Re: fc5 goals

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan fenrus demon nl>]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 11:37 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 19:16 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> > 
> > The problem is not what systems have DVD burners now.
> > The problem is what systems won't have DVD burners by the time the
> > single-CD FC ISO goal is achieved.
> 
> I don't think it will be achieved.
> 
> How much space does OpenOffice.org and all the build requirements for it
> take? I'm guessing at least 1/4 of the available space - and I don't
> think they are going to push OO.o to extras anytime in the future.
> 
> I don't think single CD is a realistic goal. Two CD's is a lot more
> realistic - but even that may be difficult.

there's an alternative...
there could be a cd split such that OOo and related all ends up on one
cd, and the installer/firstboot adjusted in a way that it can take such 
"application CDs".

Heck maybe gnome and kde could be such cd's as well over time.