system-config-lvm

[Steve Dickson]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:04:40 -0400
> Steve Dickson <SteveD at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> Why was it removed from the manifest? Any particular reason?
> 
> It wasn't removed per se.  In the past (<=FC6) there was no manifest.
> Whatever we had inside the RH firewall for Fedora (Core) was on the
> media.  We gave no real thought as to what should be on the media and
> what should be on the mirrors, we just put it all on.  This obviously
> doesn't scale once we merged core and Extras, as we'd be shipping 3+
> DVDs worth of packages for a release.  Instead we played around with
> the idea of multiple targetted spins, like a Desktop spin, a Server
> spin, a KDE spin, etc.. all with a specific package set, sharing
> something of a common core.  This didn't pan out well, lots of
> different opinions and ideas as to what should be in those spins, plus
> lots of overlap with things like the Live images.  Instead what we did
> was a "classic" spin for the installable target that hit the same usage
> cases as "Core" did in the past.  F-7 was the first release using this
> new method and so there are bound to be some holes in the manifest.  It
> just takes folks like you noticing missing functionality that we feel
> strongly about having on the media that everybody downloads.
Cool... Next time, if there is one, you might want to post what
is on the manifest so people have a chance to add or detract from
from it... Maybe it was posted and I just missed it... which
is a real possibility ;-) email has not been my friend lately... :-\

steved.