On 7/20/07, Stephan Kulow <coolo@novell.com> wrote:
Am Freitag 20 Juli 2007 schrieb Bernhard Walle:
* Stephan Kulow <coolo@novell.com> [2007-07-20 10:58]:
Am Donnerstag 19 Juli 2007 schrieb David Bolt:
[1] It's still going to be useful to add extra packages/patterns and remove unwanted (non-OSS?) packages/patterns, as well as adding extra, third party, repositories.
Actually this is very likely to be the goal of further releases: make the CD the installation medium of first choice and provide the DVD as collection of repositories and extra patterns.
So you have to download and burn *two* media every time you want a real system which has more than a few KDE OR GNOME applications?
Yes. The assumption I have is that most people installing have no problem in being online during installation. And those[1] that would like to avoid it, burn the DVD.
Note, that I'm sharing with you my blue prints. There are no concrete plans.
Greetings, Stephan [1] People buying the box will have the DVD and people being fine with a default install don't have the problem anyway.
I do have a strong protest. I'm offliner, and therefore for SUSE to fulfill my needs, *all* the packages *must* be available from offline media, such as DVDs. I have also opened a feature-request to add a second DVD to represent full OS. (not just part of it, as it currently happens with 1 DVD) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263606 Novell people, and some of the community disagreed with my stance, while others supported this idea. Currently openSUSE fulfilsl my needs at only 50% (only half of the packages available on the standard DVD), and if the downloadbale media will become CD, then SUSE will fulfill my needs at only 10% - which is terrible. As openSUSE is the community distro, I ask openSUSE developers to fulfill needs of both the online community (1CD net-install) and the offliner community (people who like to install from DVDs, even if we have broadband) - and our needs are Full Distro on several DVDs. Debian fulfills both requirements fully - openSUSE tries to. Please don't start a flame-war, but rather look around and see how can we, as openSUSE community, to address the needs of our offline Susers ? -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org