Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (322 mails)

[Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx>]

* Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx> [2007-07-09 14:21]:
> Am Montag 09 Juli 2007 schrieb Bernhard Walle:
> 
> > So why do we make a DVD at all? Just one CD for the installation and
> > the rest can be downloaded from FTP. At least it should be on the
> > DVD9. Or what's the point of buying the box if the user has do
> > download all via FTP?
> "the user" is pretty hard to grasp. And yes, if "the user" had to 
> download "all" via FTP, it would be pointless to sell a DVD. But
> if roughly a third of users have to download tex when they need it, 
> it sounds still like a good deal.

So why do we have KOffice on the DVD? I don't think that KOffice is
used by 1/3 of the openSUSE users. I never met people that use KOffice
(except maybe here in the SUSE offices), but I met a lot that use TeX.

And the fact that TeX Live needs a lot of DVD space is a reason *why*
I want to see it included in the DVD that is in the box. It's not a
problem to download a package of 10-20 MiB even with a weak internet
connection. But it *is* for a package of 500 MiB. Even for DSL 2000
it's a bit annoying. Not a big problem, but annoying.


Thanks,
   Bernhard
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