On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:08:54AM -0500, Levi Ramsey wrote: > The various editions would be nothing more than subsets of the whole > shebang, so to speak. Hell, most mirrors would carry, between main and > contribs, everything. The separate editions would only be different CD > images and different hdlists (if you chose to do a net-install). It would > be easy to place packages from the same generation of contribs or main > onto a custom CD image (with a custom hdlist). These would not be > separate distros, per se, merely subsets of a super-distro. You could > pick the sub-distro that best fits your basic needs and then add stuff > from the common pool to flesh out what you need. These would all be from > the same Cooker...
Great more ISO images wasting more space. I really like what Debian is doing with Jigsaw Downloader: http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/ Using something like that could eliminate the ISO images on the mirrors entirely and would make sub-distros like you suggest more realistic. But until Mandrake adopts something like this there is no way you'll get ISO images for these sub distros. The mirrors will likely just not carry them. As it stands now to carry 9.0 you end up with two copies between the expanded files and the ISOs. Your suggestion would create 4,5, maybe 6 copies of the same data... Ick. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion only of her own." -- John Quincy Adams, July 4th, 1821
