Re: F39 proposal: Fedora Onyx (Self-Contained Change proposal)

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Thu, May 04, 2023 at 07:28:29AM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
>  
>  I assume that this proposal will be accepted; the following is not
>  about blocking this proposal. But I wanted to ask a wider question:
>  is there some way to avoid having a separate immutable spin for each
>  and every desktop? The desktop is maybe a 100MB out of the whole distro,
>  and everything else is the same between the spins. For a package-based
>  install, a user would could just the generic variant and then configure
>  their account to use a different graphical shell. But here we need a
>  place on the download page, and in the docs, and we build ISO images,
>  run QA, etc., so there is a noticable cost to each new deliverable. 
Yep. This same problem exists in the live media 'spins' space. 
(Although there it's harder because spins do some customization in
kickstarts, so if you start with one you may have a different setup from
another if you post install it).

I'd really like some solution to this too.

There is also the cost that all these different names cause: marketing,
support, etc.

kevin