William Hubbs wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 08:12:17PM -0500, Dale wrote: > > Ferris McCormick wrote: > >> If the 20MB is a real problem, I think the alternative is to have two > >> versions of the "minimal CD". Otherwise it seems to me that Gentoo is > >> discriminating against people who cannot see the screen, and I would > >> consider that to be very tacky at best. > >> > >> Someone (rdalek1967) said the problem was an extra 2.5 hours time for > >> download over dialup. If that is correct, we are looking at 12.5 hours > >> instead of 10 hours (about 25% increase, but 10 hours is a long time, > >> and I don't know that 12.5 hours is subjectively that much longer). > >> > >> So, to answer William's original question, one way or another we should > >> provide a minimal CD with the speech software on it in my opinion. > > Keep in mind that if we produce a separate cd with the speech software, > that means yet another cd for each architecture that we know the speech > software runs on, so I think the better route would be to just put it on > all of our media that we produce for the affected architectures instead > of asking releng to produce a separate cd for each release or autobuild. >
I agree. I think it is a good idea regardless of if it is a separate CD or not. If the people that does this wants to make it a separate CD, that's cool too. Otherwise, just add it to the CD that we already have. Dale :-) :-)
