Core + Extras

[Keith G]

I like the idea of separate fedora-server, fedora-gnome and fedora-kde
CDs, although I think main essential applications like openoffice and
firefox should be on the main CD.  I think it would be better to split
the CDs thus:

* fedora-gnome = basic OS + Gnome + main essential applications
* fedora-kde = basic OS + KDE + main essential applications
* fedora-server = basic OS + server packages
* fedora-extras = other popular packages and applications
* fedora-devel = All the development libraries and applications that
most users never install

That way a user can set up a working os with as little as 1 cd.

Keith.


On 20/11/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan at fenrus.demon.nl> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 12:56 +0000, Keith G wrote:
> > How will future decisions be made on which packages constitute the
> > official release (included in the release CDs and DVD)?
>
> I think at some point the "CD" needs to shrink down; it's an online
> world after all, and 5 cd's is just "too much" for people to look up
> against.
>
> In addition to making "the cd set" smaller, another option is to make
> groups of packages and then have special cds for them  like
>
> fedora-base     (1 or 2 cds with basic OS)
> fedora-server   (all "server only" things such as apache)
> fedora-gnome    (the gnome desktop packages)
> fedora-kde      (the kde desktop packages)
> fedora-openoffice (the lot of openoffice.org)
>
> that way if you don't use kde (or gnome) you don't need to download&burn
> that CD. Same for openoffice... or you can elect to get that part of the
> upgrade via the network
>
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