Tuesday 11 Oct 2005 10:49 samaye Pascal Bleser alekhiit:
Stop growing, because people expect SUSE to be humongous. It is as if SUSE as a distro goes to eleven with the number of included packages.
Stop growing ? Are you kidding me ? In numbers of packagers, we're near 0,
I think Dazzle was just saying that the number of **packages** (not package**r**s) included in SUSE by default can be lesser. For example, I have downloaded 3.5 GB of SUSE 10 GM, but I have probably used only about 60% of it. I can't do an FTP install since I want to have a local copy of my files (I reinstalled SUSE 10 on my system *thrice* yesterday due to silly mistakes made by me) - so where does that leave us? The Fedora Core 4 DVD is 2 GB or so. Vector Linux is 2.3 GB or so. My SUSE 10 root partition contains only 2.1 GB of files. And I have unnecessarily spent download time, power consumption, server bandwidth etc etc for the remaining 1.4 GB! (Actually, that's more than 1.4 GB since the 2.1 GB of uncompressed files in my root partition would have come from - say what 1.5 GB of installer packages? So call it 2 GB.) SLICK is too small for me. GM is too large. Where do I go?