Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (471 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Montag 01 Juni 2009 schrieb Rajko M.:
> On Sunday 31 May 2009 12:38:09 pm Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 May 2009, Richard Guenther wrote:
> > > Debian splits at least docs and some fonts.
> > > See http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/texlive-base.
> >
> > That sounds like a reasonable compromise.  According to Ludwig 90%
> > of what we currently have in the package are fonts, so it seems we
> > can have our cake and eat it by splitting the huge package?
>
> We should really consider dropping installable DVD in favor of Live CD +
> Addon DVD.
> Those with fast internet use online repos anyway, those without can use
> Addon DVD that could be small version of online repos.
>
> The benefit:
> - user get basic working system,
> - some savings in bandwidth usage, as mandatory download is only 650 MB,
> - simpler DVD, and
> - still covered all Internet users.
>
> Any disadvantages?
No update medium you can use offline?

Greetings, Stephan

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