F19 DVD over size - what to drop?

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Fri May 3 14:33:05 UTC 2013


On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 09:12:09 -0500,
   Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
>Once upon a time, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> said:
>> I don't think that's the route we want to take. This was a pain to support
>> in the CD era and it won't be that long before we won't feel limited by
>> DVD size and produce larger images. (Note the source rpm image is larger
>> than a DVD already.)
>
>At this point, why is there a source RPM ISO?  Does anybody actually use
>it to get source RPMs?

I suspect it is mainly for GPL compliance. It has the packages at the 
same state as were used for the ISO builds. I doubt it gets used that 
much.


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