Does Fedora want to expel KDE from its offerings?

[Temlakos]

On 12/13/2014 11:21 AM, Dhaval Anjaria wrote:
> Honest question, would it be very hard, or problematic somehow to 
> offer the three major Fedora spins as they are, but also offer a big 
> Fedora DVD? I understand that it takes a lot of effort to know what to 
> fit in exactly 4.7 Gigs but I guess there is a demand for it, right?

(Scroll down below for my answer to this question.)

>
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan 
> <pocallaghan at gmail.com <mailto:pocallaghan at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Sat, 2014-12-13 at 01:14 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>     > But your concern is also an important point. These "products" are
>     > fragmenting Fedora for no good reason, and actually confusing users.
>
>     I think the confusion arises from the term "product". I've no idea
>     what
>     it's supposed to mean. OTOH "spin" isn't very clear to the newbie user
>     either. That said, some such term to indicate typical
>     configurations of
>     Fedora is a useful idea. I well remember the tedium of installing the
>     DVD version and wading through a seemingly interminable series of
>     menus
>     about exactly which packages I wanted. Having access to that level of
>     detail is useful for some, but most people would probably prefer
>     not to
>     have to do it except at the outermost level, especially if they're
>     newbies. I think that's what the various "products" are trying to
>     achieve, though the results are less than ideal at the moment.
>
>     poc
>

I gathered they stopped issuing the DVD after cramming "everything" on 
one disk became, frankly, problematic. And when network upgrade became 
all the rage. (It was a little difficult to manage at first.)

Temlakos
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