On 04/22/2017 10:22 AM, Larry Stotler wrote:
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Daniel Morris <danielm@ecoscentric.com> wrote:
That's not strictly true. I use Plasma as my DE but I also some GNOME applications, such as gnumeric and gimp. Conversely I expect many other DE users may enjoy KDE apps, such as digikam etc. Some of those choices may come from legacy & interoperability cases, other times it could just be the great features, eg konsole is a superb terminal emulator.
I don't wish to denigrate the genuine issues of lack/cost of bandwidth, but pigeon-holing users into a single DE ISO for the mainstream download may remove a lot of the flexibility currently offered.
Perhaps a dedicated OBS project with a subset of software would be a better solution for a <DVD >CDROM size release?
This is the exact problem that SUSE Studio was created to fix. You can build the ISO file with what you need/want and the it automagically pull in the dependencies. Then, if you want, you can remove some things you don't want(i.e. I taboo stuff like tracker, avahi, etc because I see no value in it. It may "break" some things, but it will work).
If you haven't tried SUSE Studio, then I highly recommend it. About the only real limitation I ever saw was it's only x86-32 or x86-64 and doesn't support other archs(least it didn't last time I used it).
susestudio.com
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