Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3336 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

jdd <jdd@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>>> The question is: What can we take down from the distro instead?  I
>>> don't want to go to another CD...
>
> some remarks:
>
> * cd's are going to be less and less necessary, it's nowaday
> nearly impossible to find a (new) cdreader/writer, dvd is
> going to be the standard
>
> * cd's for OSS version are there only for all the ones that
> haven't a dvd reader or/and can't dowload a dvd and don't
> have a permanent link. Debian is 10 cd's, why not SUSE?
>
> * so why not an other cd? the real problem is what must go
> on one cd and what on an other.
>
> it could be nice to have cd's for console (server) apps, one
> for kde and another for gnome, but I wonder if this is
> really possible. the goal is to download only the necessary
> ones...

Yes, this is an idea I've been toying with myself.  Have a development
CD etc.  The problem is that this needs some extra work to support it
properly, I'll have to think of a technical solution so that it's easy
to do this...

On the other hand, I prefer to not have 10 CDs for each alpha out
there, this would be something for the final product only.

Andreas
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