Fedora Targets

[David Timms]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> Hi
>
>> what i ment by this is that users are going to download single disc 
>> that will by no mean have everything they need
>
> They can still download all the CD's they want. This effort doesnt 
> prevent you from doing that.
>
>> so you think that people need to start having binaries for every distro
>> im all for it man but its not going to happen any time soon there are 
>> to many software groups out there that only have the source releases 
>> to make this no dev tools desktop user world happen
>
> They download two CD - desktop and developer CD.
>
>> the whole idea would mean that for the server cd the desktop cd and 
>> the office cd they would all need kde and or gnome and alot of 
>> doubled software making downloading the full cd install even more of 
>> a pain for dvd burnerless people 
>
> Thats what we need to figure out...

You could put all the common software needed by multiple targets onto 
one/more CD's. Also, none of the CD's need to be full ! eg: the server 
stuff might only be half a CD, but this is cool, it saves download time/ 
storage space. But if you do need specific stuff from the target you did 
not choose, you would decide to either download the whole iso, or just 
individual packages.