FC5T2 ready for even a test release?

Nils Philippsen nphilipp at redhat.com
Thu Jan 26 12:03:54 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 10:52 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > - It would also be really cool if you could click a button on the
> > package selection screen during installation, and say 'I only have
> > Fedora CDs 1 and 2'. It would then grey-out any packages that would
> > otherwise require you to have more CDs.
> 
> an alternative to this would be to have like only 1 or 2 "core" cds, and
> all others be "themed" cds. Like a "OpenOffice.org" themed CD. A "KDE"
> themed cd, or a "desktop" one if gnome and kde fit on the same cd. Maybe
> a "Advanced Development tools" cd. 

What about common dependencies between them, put them on every CD or
make a separate "dependencies" CD (which people will certainly forget to
download)?

Nils
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