DVD only for Fedora "Classic" spin?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Feb 21 16:20:13 UTC 2007


Joachim Frieben wrote:
> 
> That's excellent news when "FC7T1" e.g. did not even include "gcc".

That's because its a desktop cd and space is not infinite.

I do not know about other users, but in my  case, only about 
[downloaded] 100 MB of packages from "Fedora Extras" are part of my 
default setup, whereas I certainly have about 85% of the "Core" packages 
installed [the remainder is essentially composed of "KDE" related 
packages]. This makes me really wonder if removing the distinction 
between "Core" and "Extras" was a worthwile task [whereas I fully 
welcome the use of a unified build system for both]. Doubling the volume 
of the distribution to increase package coverage [by usage] by less than 
10% still seems questionable to me, especially when the impact on 
install media distribution ["bittorrent"] is so severe.

You have to taken into consideration the general case. Not just yourself.

Rahul








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