On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 11:20:16PM -0600, Andreas Girardet wrote:
I like your idea! To get around that one of us that knows how to (not me), can write a program that creates an iso of the install type you actually want/need by downloading the packages and use the .sel files to construct whatever iso type they want. So if you install minimal, it will be minimal, with kde it will be that and so on. And even better have a Linux, Windows and Mac (ppc) program that does it. Probably written in C#/mono? And a bittorrent type of system with trackers downloading packages in a distributed manner from ftp/http sources around the world. That way load can be distributed and so on. Kind of what jigdo does, just much more user friendly really, since our goal is to be the most user friendly / usable distro.
But as a first shot one could use jigdo. There is even a client for Windows and Mac users. If you maintain the current situation until you have implemented the perfect system you will maintain the current system forever. Robert -- Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2214 Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@uni-mannheim.de