Does Fedora want to expel KDE from its offerings?

Dhaval Anjaria dhv2712 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 13 16:21:17 UTC 2014


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?

On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <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
>
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