-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rick Thomas wrote: > But, it does *not* make sense for a businesscard or netinst install. > For either of those, you must have reasonable network access to have any > chance of succeeding. Making people keep their install CD around > forever (or until they edit their sources.list file -- which I contend > again is extremely newbie-unfriendly) and making them put it in the
That's not necessary, as soon as new versions of the the packages arrive in the distribution, the cd will contain only outdated packages. The desktop desktop default installation will install synaptic and at update the older versions from the netinst will have lower priority than the web. Also, take into account that the netinst contains only the base-install (AFAIK, please correct me if I am wrong), so it is likely that *every* system will have those packages installed and never removed, so no need for a CD anyway. OTOH, I agree that the analysis above is a nice consequence, and probably not so clean in theory. > drive every single time they want to install a new application is just > silly. It smacks of MicroSoft. (I know -- Debian's motives are As I explained, this will not happen. - -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEweblY8Chqv3NRNoRAkA5AJ9mvWFIc3797xaYAUdT5C+C+jCBMwCfVSCY QqXbBNjdHznLmitSp6rQb80= =mlch -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]