What is the fascination with 'spins'

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 16:26:02 +0000,
  "monty19@ hotmail.com" <monty19 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> But the question I asked before that still hasn't been answered, is how big 
> is Extras right now?  It looks (probably quite desceptively) relatively 
> small when looking at the directory on download.fedora.redhat.com.  Does 
> the sum total for Core and Extras really add up to more than the 4.7 GB 
> that a DVD would provide?  Do you really even need two DVD images to get a 
> complete install?

On Saturday this is how big core+extras was:
[root at bruno f7]# du -k
1048    ./core/Fedora/base
3352576 ./core/Fedora/RPMS
3353632 ./core/Fedora
7832    ./core/images/xen
7304    ./core/images/pxeboot
149904  ./core/images
11208   ./core/repodata
192     ./core/stylesheet-images
7684    ./core/isolinux
3522936 ./core
8       ./extras/repodata/repoview
6836    ./extras/repodata
4876048 ./extras
8398992 .