PROPOSAL: Core redefinition
Stephen J Smoogen
smoogen at lanl.gov
Mon Jul 26 17:07:57 UTC 2004
Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 09:07:25PM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
>
>>I am also not a great proponent of a substantial reduction of Core. Like
>>Jos I think a distro should be somewhat complete wrt the packages
>>offered. Of course removing stale packages is a good idea. But I am
>>afraid the redundancy in Core is not of such extend that Core can be
>>reduced substantially.
>
>
> There are two things that convince me that shrinking it below the 4CD
> size we have now is not worthwhile
>
> 1. As several people pointed out DVD images are becoming the normal
> thing now
>
> 2. Providing we keep the situation where you can download CD#1 and
> do a minimal install the extra CDs are not a drag on broadband
> users. The tools would benefit from some better group understanding
> but thats a separate issue
>
Hmmm how about what is on CD#1 is CORE and everything else is extras ;)
>
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