CDs DVDs or netboot. Oh my!

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm not misunderstanding the concept of a LiveCD in any way, I'm 
>>>> just disagreeing about how important having CD media released by the 
>>>> Fedora Project is exactly.
>>>>
>>>> So, not releasing CD sets is like saying you need to yum upgrade 
>>>> although it is not recommended just because someone out there isn't 
>>>> using the LiveCD installer because they tried Fedora and felt 
>>>> comfortable. Someone is actually needing CD sets, and based on the 
>>>> numbers that has been at least 760 people in the last 4 weeks.
>>>
>>> I think the better solution is to support live upgrades better and 
>>> don't do multi arch in live images by default so that they fit into a 
>>> CD for all architectures.
>>>
>>> Rahul
>>>
>>
>> If only we could fulfill todays needs with whatever the future promises.
> 
> The need is actually for the next release. There is no reason reason we 
> couldn't do put more effort into what I had just outlined now onwards 
> for the next development cycle. We could release Fedora 8 live images 
> and when we release Fedora 9, we make live upgrades a supported option. 
> That would solve the actual problem instead of working around it.
> 
> Rahul
> 

I'm sorry if I'm misunderstanding you but I don't think you can call 
what we had with FC6 and lost with F7 "a work around" for a problem that 
we've introduced with F8 -no upgrades using CDs.

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