On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Alex Kanavin wrote:
>> My guess is that most people install the stuff, and never read it
>> or even know it is there anyways... I hope that RedHat at least
>> continues to package the HOWTO's, etc.. and put them in
>> powertools, or a "redhat-docs" dir on the site. I'd still like
>> to be able to download it all in RPM format and install it.
>
>Another chance to switch to multi-CD distribution missed. RedHat must do
>something about this or someday we'll see TeX and Emacs being removed in
>favour of KOffice and KDevelop.
I *highly* doubt that they would do that. Too many UNIX heads
out there rely on that.
I do agree that they should go to a multi-CD distribution soon
though, the only thing then is that either the second CD would
only be partially full, or else it would be packed with a tonne
of crap just to fill the CD.
My preference for now would be for RedHat to keep the OS itself
as a single CDROM, but to offer an "addon pack" with the stuff
that was removed, plus other stuff. Possibly "powertools" has
free space for the stuff that was removed? Although I don't
think the HOWTO's should be considered "power" anything. A new
CD name would be needed I think. Perhaps a RedHat CD containing
500+ megs of LInux documentation off the web, including the
RedHat knowledge base, and other such sites?
Just some ideas to toss around...
Take care,
TTYL
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