FC3 -> FC4 Upgrade? (was Re: reducing distribution CD count)

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Sun Feb 27 20:31:59 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 04:22 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>On Feb 26, 2005, seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
>>  I believe extras functions b/c they are are over 901 packages in
>> extras.
[snip]
>Sure having CDs of Extras available for download would address part of
>the problem: people would still be able to ask friends with big pipes
>to download and burn CDs for them.  But how convenient is the
>experience of installing packages from such CDs be?  Anaconda won't be
>able to install packages from such CDs; will system-config-packages?

Yes.  And firstboot even asks for such CDs.  And has since before Fedora
existed :)

Jeremy




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