DVD only for Fedora "Classic" spin?
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Wed Feb 21 16:40:08 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 21:50 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Joachim Frieben wrote:
> >
> > That's excellent news when "FC7T1" e.g. did not even include "gcc".
>
> That's because its a desktop cd and space is not infinite.
>
> I do not know about other users, but in my case, only about
> [downloaded] 100 MB of packages from "Fedora Extras" are part of my
> default setup, whereas I certainly have about 85% of the "Core" packages
> installed [the remainder is essentially composed of "KDE" related
> packages]. This makes me really wonder if removing the distinction
> between "Core" and "Extras" was a worthwile task [whereas I fully
> welcome the use of a unified build system for both]. Doubling the volume
> of the distribution to increase package coverage [by usage] by less than
> 10% still seems questionable to me, especially when the impact on
> install media distribution ["bittorrent"] is so severe.
>
> You have to taken into consideration the general case. Not just yourself.
Yet you question the merge based on _your_ currently installed package
set? Um... wtf?
josh
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