Op zaterdag 05 november 2011 16:24:17 schreef Pierre Jarillon: [...] > Then it is too much to be stored in a cheap DVD. > IMO, when the size of a branch reaches such a size, an updated release > should be issued. Remember that a lot of people have a slow link to > internet. Mandriva did such updated releases which all work better than > the original, improving the confidence in the distro. > Today, a woman who has installed Mageia alone and for the first time, said > me that update is so much long that she thought the distro was broken. [...]
If we were to use the updates directly when installing (ie: not install first then update, but use updated packages at install time), we could even say, have an "Update CD/DVD", which just contains the packages in question and use that instead of eg: mirrors... This would effectively solve the problem even when not rereleasing mageia. It's true that Mandriva did .0 and .1 but they also had yearly release and not 9months...
