Re: Linux format review: Fedora Core 4
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Software shelved:
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20050711#1
It has been that mentioned many packages like Abiword, Exim, XEmacs and
XFCE has moved into extras as a effort to reduce bloat and this would be
a problem for users who want to retrieve such packages over a dial up
connection. I dont buy this argument. Lets assume for a moment that
Fedora Core 4 included all of these packages in a 5 CD collection
without moving anything to the extras repository, would users with a
dial up connection be able to download it then?.
This argument is valid. Dial-up users does not download isos over their
dial-up connection, they either 1) download at other place (at work, a
friend), 2) borrow and copy the discs or 3) wait (in my country like 3
or 4 months after a release) for a computer magazine to come out with
the discs included. So for them the content of the install set is very
important.
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