Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (322 mails)

[James Tremblay <jamesat@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 16:20 +0200, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
> Il giorno lun, 09/07/2007 alle 09.46 -0400, James Tremblay ha scritto:
> > I believe a complete restructuring of openSUSE's delivery should be
> > considered. To provide as little difference between the download and the
> > retail versions as possible should be the goal, And there are
> > differences. check the bug
> > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=282531 there are differences
> > even the devs forget.
> > 
> > my proposal is no dvd:
> > cd1 kde or gnome base install
> > cd2 OS extension, rest of yast and anything that could be called as an
> > underlying dependency to an application.
> > cd3 server applications i.e apache2,mysql,etc
> > cd4 server applications that rely on cd3
> > cdx0 more server applications
> > cdX1 desktop applications, this could be more than one cd if catagories
> > demand the space. It could also include the EDU-CD 
> > cdX2 non-oss
> > cdX3 etc
> > 
> > This way a person downloading would only need to choose the desktop and
> > what they want to accomplish beyond that.
> 
> To be honest, it seems to me the proliferation of CD's and it doesn't
> solve the problem. The user would have to download 1 CD and almost
> surely multiples CD's due to dependencies.
> 
> I'd stick with one DVD with the current configuration and eventually
> _reduce_ the number of media by removing the 1-5 CD set, which I don't
> think is widely used.
> 
> In other words:
> 
> - _FULL_ DVD for both architecture
> - 1 CD install for GNOME and KDE 
> 
Those people you advocate for with slow or limited internet connections
are likely to still have a CD-Rom drive not a DVD drive. They may even
only have a pII\pIII as well.
-- 
James Tremblay
Director of Technology
Newmarket School District
Newmarket,NH
http://en.opensuse.org/Education
"let's make a difference"

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