kde in extras - the devel discussion

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 12:39 +0100, Tony Molloy wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 June 2006 12:33, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 11:35 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
> > > Norm wrote:
> > > > Personally I prefer Gnome, but then that is my choice.  One thing I
> > > > like about Linux when compared to that other operating system is
> > > > one does have choices.
> > > > My feeling is the core of Fedora at 5 cd's is getting a little out
> > > > of hand; if I may make a suggestion in this area why not reduce the
> > > > core to a true minimum needed to intiate an installation and create
> > > > bundles of
> > >
> > > I have suggested this before, only much more hard'core'.  The "true
> > > minimum' needed to initiate an installation is a relatively small
> > > packageset that does not require X or a Desktop Environment, in fact
> > > I proposed to precook that minimum into a tarball and poop it onto
> > > your HDD in one shot, boot into that and bring in what you need in a
> > > < 1 minute install action.
> > >
> > > Put another way, no playing favourites, blow Gnome into Extras too,
> > > turn the actual 'core' into something that is good for Firewalls,
> > > routers, server duties AND the basis of a Desktop box.
> >
> > +1
> >
> > Ralf
> 
> All very well for experienced users and for those with high speed 
> connections for the downloads. 
FYI: I don't have a high speed connection :(

> However I can see new users having major problems.

C.f. what Rex promised us yesterday: FE CDs, and an installer (he
referred to anaconda) being able to automatically install from "external
repos". 

I read his lips, and further on presume RH will be shipping an installer
that will be able to automatically ask for FE CDs, in future.
To me, this means, the only user sensible change will be the installer
to ask for FE-CDs instead of FC-CDs. 

This consideration applies to KDE as well as to Gnome, so if the
installer doesn't provides such kind of feature, Rex's desire to move
KDE to Extras won't work, either.

Ralf