F19 DVD over size - what to drop?

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Fri May 3 01:50:55 UTC 2013


On 05/02/2013 07:55 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> There's some newUI wrinkles there; for F18, the DVD media actually could
> not supplement the install from online repos (pre-newUI this was always
> possible). I think this is meant to be possible again in F19, but I
> didn't get around yet to checking if it is, and if so, how it's
> presented in UI terms. I don't *think* the package spoke has any code to
> split up the groups by whether they're on the medium you're installing
> from or not, but I could certainly be wrong.

Without that split, it isn't really possible to make intelligent 
decisions about when to rely on the media and when to rely on network.  
It would also be somewhat tricky if you want to be able to choose to get 
the updates  for the packages in the media during installation itself.

Rahul


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