Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (441 mails)

[Alberto Passalacqua <alberto.passalacqua@xxxxxx>]

> If there where not box, we could have now a 11.1.2 dvd. No other
> change needed. Exactly what you get with an install then 4/5 hours of
> dl right now, mostly for people without dl capacity, and convenience.

As Marcus said, creating these DVD would take time and effort, and has
no relation with the box. We could in theory have respins even if there
is a boxed version.

The point is that respins are not worth the time and the effort if not
in extreme cases (see 10.1). You talk about 4-5 hours to install
patches, but that's the case only if you install months after release
and repeat the installation many times. If you are in the second case
(installing many times or on many systems), you can always download the
RPM's and build a local repository or simply put them in a directory and
use that directory as repository.

Doing what you suggest, in a certain sense, save you (user) some time,
but reduces the time people working on openSUSE work on the release, so
it doesn't help, in the end, to have better quality distributions.

Regards,
A.

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