On 7/20/07, Stephan Kulow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Am Freitag 20 Juli 2007 schrieb Bernhard Walle:
> * Stephan Kulow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-20 10:58]:
> > Am Donnerstag 19 Juli 2007 schrieb David Bolt:
> > > [1] It's still going to be useful to add extra packages/patterns and
> > > remove unwanted (non-OSS?) packages/patterns, as well as adding extra,
> > > third party, repositories.
> >
> > Actually this is very likely to be the goal of further releases: make the
> > CD the installation medium of first choice and provide the DVD as
> > collection of repositories and extra patterns.
>
> So you have to download and burn *two* media every time you want a
> real system which has more than a few KDE OR GNOME applications?
>
Yes. The assumption I have is that most people installing have no problem in
being online during installation. And those[1] that would like to avoid it,
burn the DVD.
Note, that I'm sharing with you my blue prints. There are no concrete plans.
Greetings, Stephan
[1] People buying the box will have the DVD and people being fine with a
default install don't have the problem anyway.
I do have a strong protest. I'm offliner, and therefore for SUSE to
fulfill my needs, *all* the packages *must* be available from offline
media, such as DVDs.
I have also opened a feature-request to add a second DVD to represent
full OS. (not just part of it, as it currently happens with 1 DVD)
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263606
Novell people, and some of the community disagreed with my stance,
while others supported this idea.
Currently openSUSE fulfilsl my needs at only 50% (only half of the
packages available on the standard DVD), and if the downloadbale media
will become CD, then SUSE will fulfill my needs at only 10% - which is
terrible.
As openSUSE is the community distro, I ask openSUSE developers to
fulfill needs of both the online community (1CD net-install) and the
offliner community (people who like to install from DVDs, even if we
have broadband) - and our needs are Full Distro on several DVDs.
Debian fulfills both requirements fully - openSUSE tries to.
Please don't start a flame-war, but rather look around and see how can
we, as openSUSE community, to address the needs of our offline Susers
?
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-Alexey Eremenko "Technologov"
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