fedora-devel-list Digest, Vol 12, Issue 56

[Nick Thorley]

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>Today's Topics:
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>   1. Re: FC4 slimfast slimfest (Eric Warnke)
>   2. Re: FC4 slimfast slimfest (Jesse Keating)
>   3. Re: FC4 slimfast slimfest (Elliot Lee)
>   4. Re: FC4 slimfast slimfest (Ronny Buchmann)
>   5. Re: FC4 slimfast slimfest (Phil Muldoon)
>   6. Re: FC4 slimfast slimfest (Andrew Overholt)
>   7. Re: FC4 slimfast slimfest (Ronny Buchmann)
>   8. Re: FC4 slimfast slimfest (seth vidal)
>   9. Re: FC4 slimfast slimfest (Mail Lists)
>  10. Re: FC4 slimfast slimfest (Alexandre Oliva)
>  11. Re: FC4 slimfast slimfest (Alexandre Oliva)
>  12. Re: FC4 slimfast slimfest (Bill Nottingham)
>  13. Re: FC4 slimfast slimfest (Bill Nottingham)
>  14. Re: FC4 slimfast slimfest (Bill Nottingham)
>  15. Proposal for CD count in FC4 (Jesse Keating)
>  16. Re: FC4 slimfast slimfest (Alexandre Oliva)
>  17. Re: FC4 slimfast slimfest (Alan Cox)
>  18. Re: FC4 slimfast slimfest (Chris Adams)
>  19. Re: FC4 slimfast slimfest (Matthias Saou)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:34:45 -0500
>From: Eric Warnke <eric at snowmoon.com>
>Subject: Re: FC4 slimfast slimfest
>To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core
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>Message-ID: <421A53F5.2060302 at snowmoon.com>
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>I know this will be an unpopular suggestion, but 300MB is a lot to 
>loose.   So I'm just throwing this out there.....
>
>KDE by my estimates is 350mb, move it into extras.
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>Cheers,
>
>Elliot Lee wrote:
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>>Hi all,
>>
>>Here's a heads up that we need to get rid of about 300M of packages to
>>make sure that FC4 continues to fit on 4 CD's. Right now eclipse, xfce,
>>    
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I agree that a cd two install would be good and have packages available 
from online.  However I think there does need to be an option for a full 
cd set download.  I do many installs that are on machines with no 
internet connection and also do jobs onsite where there is only a dialup 
option.  Many people I speak to say that they would have tried suse 
except for the need to download packages from an ftp server on install 
has stopped this as the install was a nightmare.

If the number of cd's is getting too much - why not refer onto dvd 
installs as most machines these days have them and this would then 
reduce the amount of disks to two and provide the cd download for people 
who required it.

Please feel free to comment.