On 07/05/2008 09:00 AM, Miklos Vajna wrote:
On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 10:35:24PM +1000, Russell Dickenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I can't understand why, for each release of Frugalware, the entire
contents of the stable repository are packaged onto CDs - 13 in the
case of Kalgan IIRC. If anyone wanting to install Frugalware has the
necessary bandwidth to download 13 CDs, surely they could do a basic
installation - perhaps from CDs 1 and 2, then have pacman-g2 download
whatever else they want/need.
Is there something here that I just don't understand?
it's just for people who do not have internet access at home, nor have a
dvd drive or dvd writer. so they can download the cds at work or at a
friend and they have all the packages offline.
i think these days most people just go with the dvd or the netinstall,
since changing cds are boring :)
being nice to people who <described in paragraph #1> just costs ~
nothing, so why not.
(i remember we got some feedback about some users liked this, and came
up with Archlinux and Gentoo as an example where it's almost impossible
to use the system while being offline, since only a selected range of
packages is available for download on cd.)
Having so many ISOs is confusing and uses up too much unnecessary space.
It would be trivial for someone to just download CD1 and the individual
packages they needed to make custom package CDs for offline
installation. Really, most users will only want/need the DVD or CD1/CD2
(or netinstall of course). From there, they can torch their own package
CDs if they need them.
As an alternative to hosting all the ISOs (and thereby duplicating the
hosted packages), why not do something like Debian's jigdo? Just a
thought :)
--
Cory Burgett
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:wq
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