A few ideas for FC7+

[Peter Gordon]

Hi, list.

I'm on a brainstorm for my website work, and I got to thinking of a few of
ideas for Fedora that I believe would make it even cooler. I know FC6 is just
heading out of the proverbial door, but I'd like to get discussion going on
FC7+ things so that they will rock that much harder when implemented (if, in
fact, they are).

Firstly, there was talk at one point about switching the default RPM build
flags to use -Os (optimize for size, mostly) instead of -O2. For one, this
could potentially reduce the ISO sizes significantly. (I don't have any
specific numbers, but as I recall the estimate was something of the ~300 MB
range, give or take.) Also, this would mean that applications would
potentially feel faster because less would need to be read from disk, and hits
to processor cache would be increased, as well as being able to store more in
the RAM caching. Is this planned for the FC7/8 timeframe? If not, is there a
plan to implement such a thing at all, if even for specific packages that
would benefit from it?

Secondly, the current setup of Pirut is that it downloads things from the
network whenever you go to install something. Is there work being done to be
able to use the installer DVDs/CDs as optional repositories for this? (That
way, a user whose Internet connection is slow or non-functional would be able
to install packages from the discs, rather than the net.

Tangential to this point actually, is a third point: Are there planes to have
a packages CD/DVD of sorts which contains a snapshot of Extras packaging? I
think this would also be a definite plus, as many of the packages in Extras
are rather large (especially much of the game data for things like Nexuiz and
Tremulous)...


Thanks!
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