What is the fascination with 'spins'

[dragoran]

monty19@ hotmail.com wrote:
> I like having just one CD, with the vast majority of what I want to 
> install.  It takes me a few minutes tops to download what I want from 
> Extras now, versus the many times that it took to install the 
> developer packages I wanted with F7T1...
there should be a everything set (2 DVDs) for people that prefer it and 
want to install it on many systems. the only problem could be mirros but 
it can be shipped as a bittorent only download.
And fedora should stop to really on a broadband internet connection. It 
should be able to be installed without network access [1]. And software 
should be able to be installed from the media afterwards, even for new 
users [2].
We had this before moving to yum/pirut so its a regession that should be 
fixed, I would even consider this as a blocker.

1:
Its only possible if you only want the packages that are on the spin 
that you have downloaded.

2:
I know that its possible to create custom local repos and/or use a dvd 
as a repo.
But try to tell this a new user coming from windows...
What would he do? Either go to an other distro or even worse back to 
windows.