PROPOSAL: Core redefinition

[Stephen J Smoogen]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 09:07:25PM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> 
>>I am also not a great proponent of a substantial reduction of Core. Like
>>Jos I think a distro should be somewhat complete wrt the packages
>>offered. Of course removing stale packages is a good idea. But I am
>>afraid the redundancy in Core is not of such extend that Core can be
>>reduced substantially.
> 
> 
> There are two things that convince me that shrinking it below the 4CD
> size we have now is not worthwhile
> 
> 1.	As several people pointed out DVD images are becoming the normal
> 	thing now
> 
> 2.	Providing we keep the situation where you can download CD#1 and
> 	do a minimal install the extra CDs are not a drag on broadband
> 	users. The tools would benefit from some better group understanding
> 	but thats a separate issue
>

Hmmm how about what is on CD#1 is CORE and everything else is extras ;)


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