I think: It's really not an issue at all since for $3.99 US I got both CD's with Linux Mandrake from Cheapbytes that included EVERYTHING I need and ALL the header files I could EVER use to develope any app I can imagine to put together. I'm just learning C++ and I've found Mandrake "developer" install to be the Cat's meow! Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How much developement on a first CD? > (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=20000830115111) > > I just got an interesting request from Geoffrey Lee: > > :~Denis, can you make a poll or annoucement to ask for opinion? > :~ I *don't* want us to be the first distro who has Anon Coward who post on slashdot >who say > :~hey I got Mandrake but fuck there are no frigging devel headers > :~and people say we make another Corel .. > > As you can imagine, my answer was: > > With pleasure. I wanted to do it yesterday already. > > Just give me a text of question (must be short) and > possible answers, because I can not come up with anything usable. > > But he did not really come with a short question and well-defined answers, so I >decided to post this as a story instead. Here is what he answered me: > > > Hmm, let me see. > > Some developers have suggested to move a portion of the development header files out >of the main CD, due to space concerns (Just think of how much space the kernels and >the > XFree stuff are taking up ...). This is OK for desktop users, since they cannot care >about what to do with /usr/include/*, but for people who develop things > on their machine, or download stuff to build from .tar.gz (because there ain't an >RPM yet) , things might not go too well ...what do you think? > > Ok, what I think is "I could not care less as long as the second CD is free too", >but since we are always giving > away only the first CD on fairs, and people have to download the second one (or buy >some pack), I wonder if this is such > a good idea. But then again, are these people who take free > CD-s developers at all? Or are they simply bored Windows > users, who have no need for any developers packages anyway... > > What do you think?
