On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 13:23, Jerry Feldman wrote:
I think we've had a good discussion. The underlying point that I wanted to make is that SuSE (or any other vendor for that matter) must make decisons. I've always liked the completeness of the SuSE distro. Essentially, there is so much in a distro today that the DVD is getting packed and the majority of people use the DVDs. But, there are some cases where people muct used the CDs. I think that SuSE's choice to leave packages off the CDs was problematical, but necessary. What I am suggesting is a way that those who buy a boxed set have a means to get those packages that are left off the media. Most of the other distributions have done this for years. I don't know the criteria for what packages get dropped, but I would think that it would be those lower used packages. My point is that SuSE should have provided a way for users to obtain the missing packages at the same time they install from CD rather than wait a month. People can still buy an inexpensive DVD reader.
-- Jerry Feldman
I would like to ask if many people actually use the sources DVD as opposed to the number of people that could have used the packages that were left off of the CD's. Why not drop the sources DVD and add a sixth CD in its place instead of dropping packages? Just my $.02 -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989 SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please*