FC2 test 1

[stucklenp]

That was the most sensible answer I have read on this subject to date.
Thanks Alexandre Aliva! You expressed exactly how view it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexandre Oliva" <aoliva at redhat.com>
To: "Bill Nottingham" <notting at redhat.com>
Cc: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: FC2 test 1


> On Feb 12, 2004, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > Alexander Dalloz (alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de) said:
> >> Sorry, I meant: stay at 3 binary CDs plus the sources CDs.
>
> > There's two conflicting schools of thought here:
>
> > 1) get Extras going, move chunks of Core to Extras, and have
> >    Core be 2-3 binary CDs
> > 2) get Extras going, but put even more stuff in Core, have Core
> >    go to 5,6,7 CDs
>
> > Personally, I'd go for door #1.
>
> Going with #1 means to me that less people will be using test releases
> day to day, because stuff they rely on for day to day work will only
> be in Extras that will likely not be available for the short life of
> test releases.
>
> Frankly, I don't care too much if the core release grows to more CDs.
> Software grows, it's just a fact of life.  Having more stuff in the
> core means it takes more work to maintain it, but having it in extras
> will also require it to be maintained, and will just make it take
> longer for a release to be useful for people who rely on stuff that's
> only available in extras.
>
> Of course, ideally it should be possible to not have to have every CD
> in order to do a smallish installation.  Getting more brains into the
> CD layout programs would enable different kinds of installs to use
> different sets of CDs (Base system; Gnome/KDE; etc).  And the
> installer could be improved to enable you to fetch those few missing
> packages you'd like to install but don't want to have to download or
> burn CDs off the net.  This might be easily accomplished by leaving a
> note for firstboot to process directing it to install off the net
> packages whose CDs the user failed to supply, which would currently
> cause the installation to abort.  I realize there may be dependency
> issues to be addressed here, and maybe even RPM improvements that
> would be required, but it would sure be a nice feature to have!
>
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