On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Horst H. von Brand vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl wrote:
Thorsten Leemhuis fedora@leemhuis.info wrote:
On 23.10.2008 18:56, Jesse Keating wrote:
Neither will the meaning of 'minimal' be. Will it have networking? Will it have yum? Will it have ssh? Will it speak my language? So on, and so forth.
Not sure if my mind plays tricks with me, but I got the impression that I hear something like the above as a "shoot the discussion down" argument every few days right now... This is starting to annoy me, as statements like the above don't lead anywhere: Decisions have to be made; repeatably pointing out that it's hard to do them doesn't bring us a tiny bit further. So please:
Just let a group of interested people make a decision and realize it as a feature for F11! Then we hopefully can get rid of this topic (which seems to pop up every few weeks...).
That /has/ been done (yes, I've been around since Red Hat 3.x days), and it made /never/ everybody happy, thus the recurring flamewars on the topic. When they say here that it _can't_ be solved it is not out of lazyness, it is out of (often bitter) experience.
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I have to agree with Jesse and Horst because I remember the "minimal" install option too and any option I chose always disappointed because I found I had to add stuff to the minimal installs and remove stuff from the other installs.
So I like what we currently have more. It builds up less expectation and therefore disappoints less. ;-) And that is all you can hope for given the extreme visability of the feature.