Now that everyone should have had a chance to give their opinion, I'm going to try to sum up the arguments from both sides, both for and against the two main suggestions: repository and installation source. If anyone thinks I missed any points, please respond as soon as possible. I'd like to reach a decision by the end of the week so development and documentation have plenty of time to implement any changes needed. This means that if you have points to change in this list, I need them by Wednesday so I can take them into consideration. Installation Source ------------------- Advantages ---------- Likely to be understandable to new users (installation source=source of installation=what you install from) Applicable to any acceptable installation media or other format, including future development Familiar to long-time SUSE users Less work to implement (already used in documentation and in large parts of YaST) Disadvantages ------------- Possible confusion with program sources openSUSE source tree uses "inst_source" as the distributed media Repository or Software Repository --------------------------------- Advantages ---------- Used in some non-SUSE tools Familiar to users from other distros Disadvantages ------------- Possible confusion with SVN or CVS repository Meaning not clear to users coming from Windows or MacOS or that are new to computers Connection to one specific type (there are valid options that don't have repo directories) Requires extensive changes in documentation and software Would conflict with YaST source code (this _is_ a real disadvantage because it makes the code more confusing and it is a goal to have readable YaST code) Definitions don't seem very applicable to CD and DVD media --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-doc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-doc+help@opensuse.org