On Wed, 2015-08-19 at 19:29 +0300, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote:
2015-08-19 19:05 GMT+03:00 Stephen Gallagher
<sgallagh(a)redhat.com>:
> On Wed, 2015-08-19 at 18:49 +0300, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote:
> > My impression is that all the non-live installation media are
> > currently somewhat under the Server flavour, even if they seem
> > capable
> > of doing non-Server installations.
> >
> > Would this change leave i686 with only the kind of install media
> > that
> > installs a desktop environment?
> >
> > I think most of my server-ish Fedora installations are
> > "nonproduct"
> > ones, so it would not affect me much if the stuff specific to
> > Server
> > flavour is not available on i686. But I'd really want to have
> > some
> > means of making a minimal nonproduct i686 installation.
> >
>
>
> Please take that to FESCo. This discussion is solely about the
> Fedora
> Server Edition deliverables.
At this point, I was just asking for the sake of making it clear
whether or not the proposed change would have the effect that I think
it could have. If currently all the non-live installation media are
Server installation media, this change has quite large effects on
some
Fedora users who are not necessarily Fedora Server users.
I think it would be a good idea to have full, bootable and
kickstartable installer available in a flavour neutral fashion. But
making that happen is indeed a separate issue from figuring out the
possible effects of Server flavour dropping i686 stuff.
There have been plans for quite some time to have a generic netinstall
media that is separate from Server. If we make this move, that may get
a priority bump indeed.