FC4 slimfast slimfest

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 01:03:30AM +0100, Féliciano Matias wrote:
 > Le lundi 21 février 2005 à 16:30 -0500, Bill Nottingham a écrit :
 > > Féliciano Matias (feliciano.matias at free.fr) said: 
 > > > > You can view the list of new packages since FC3 (sorted by package size)  
 > > > > at http://people.redhat.com/sopwith/new-packages.txt
 > > > 
 > > > Increase the CD size to 700 or 720 Mo ?
 > > 
 > > This was tried around Red Hat Linux 8.0.
 > 
 > More than 2 years ago. FC3 require at least a pentium class cpu, 64 Mo
 > of ram, ...
 > Hardware changes.

That doesn't necessarily mean it gets any better.
We already get far too many bugs about media-check failures.
Doing this is a recipe for disaster.

 > >  There were too many failures,
 > > really.
 > Mandrake use 700 Mo iso.

Mandrake also included half-baked patches that ate CD drives
firmware at one point.  Just because one distro does something
doesn't mean its a good idea for everyone to do it.

 
		Dave