Always thinking about slow internet connections, or no connection at all (in Ardèche, in Burkina Faso, in Niger etc...)
Three months after the last version of Mandriva has appeared, I have downloaded more than 700 Mo of updates (some updates updating previous updates) If someone installs Mageia with a DVD or CD provided by somebody, he will get more and more rpms to update as much as time goes on.... (for instance if Mageia 2011 appears april 2011, I send a DVD to my friend who installs it on his new computer in september 2011 .... and he will be asked to update his installed Mageia) If he cannot download a CD iso because of his connection, he cannot download 700 Mo of updates !!! It might be useful to provide "updated" DVD iso or CD iso, some time after the release was provided, so that those burned DVD or CD can be sent to people with slow internet connection, freeing them of huge updates to download !!! The only solution I have for now with Mandriva is to keep a copy of each dowloaded updated rpm in a folder, and to fill a DVD with those rpms (it is a DVD of updates, not an updated DVD...) and to send it. My friend copyes those rpms in a specially created folder, and add this folder as a source in rpmdrake... (not so easy for a newbie) and he can get an up to date working Mandriva immediately... my 2 pence
