Re: I love Fedora Core! Thank you!

["Alan M. Evans" <ame1 extratech com>]

On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 15:07, alan wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Alan M. Evans wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 13:53, Chris Schumann wrote:
> >> If you turn off the three package selection options, you only need the first
> >> two CDs.
> >
> > You say that like that's not very much. If one unselects *all* of the
> > optional installs then it seems reasonable that a single 700MB CD should
> > be enough.
> 
> Thius depends on how the rpms get ordered on the disc set.  It should be 
> quite possible to do.  (It is a directed graph problem.)  I don't know if 
> the install is packed in directed graph dependancy order.  Probably not.

Sorry, forgot the sarcasm tags. I was meaning to imply that I already
knew that a the first FC5 CD is insufficient for an absolute minimum
install, and that a reasonably thinking individual would expect it to be
sufficient.

You are almost certainly correct that the discs are not optimally
packed.