FC4 ISO suggestion

[Peter Boy]

Am Sonntag, den 12.12.2004, 16:52 -0500 schrieb Dave Jones:
>  > Since the drives supporting larger dvd sizes are currently available but the 
>  > media is relatively expensive, I would like to suggest that, for FC4, a 
>  > second dvd ISO be created which just has the SRPMS.  This would allow an 
>  > individual to cut two dvd disks but would be consistent by having everything 
>  > available on those two dvd disks.
> 
> Alternatively, for FC4, how about we trim down 'core' and push more
> things out to extras ? Hopefully by the time FC4 ships we'll have
> a working extras infrastructure.

I would vote against any trim down of Fedora Core just because of the
numbers of source CD's. Given the fact of a lot of non-cooperation
between several community based repos, Core should include all the
programs needed for a basic workstation - at least currently. Instead
trimming down you should consider to add packages like tomcat again -
and perhaps some web applications as byline (formerly Red Hat CMS).

If space is a problem for the mirrors, you should suspend the source
iso's instead.  I suppose there are only very few people who need the
complete set of source packages. Most people need none and some may need
some selected packages they are interested in. I think it's ok to have
all the packages as single files in the OS tree.


Peter