Do we need split media CDs for F12?

Jeroen van Meeuwen kanarip at kanarip.com
Wed Jun 17 23:11:46 UTC 2009


On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:01:02 -0400, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com>
wrote:
> Jeroen van Meeuwen (kanarip at kanarip.com) said: 
>> > Something else not terribly unreasonable, instead of split CD media, a
>> > single CD offered that is netinst.iso plus the contents of @core and
>> > @base if it'll fit on a CD.  Then they can do whatever custom install
>> > they want, and add packages after install, either from a DVD media or
>> > from a local mirror, or from the Internet.
>> > 
>> 
>> That's exactly what Fedora Unity is about to release for Fedora 11.
> 
> Any particular reason why this is (or isn't) a spin?
> 

No particular reason with a traceable track record, but I've understood
that anything that is not composed with pungi or livecd-tools will be
blocked as they are the blessed and preferred tools for the job(s).

-Jeroen




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