What is the fascination with 'spins'

[Gilboa Davara]

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 11:49 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 05 February 2007 11:33, Kevin DeKorte wrote:
> > However, I come from the other side of this. I want a single CD
> > (preferred)/DVD where I can boot it and it will help me setup and
> > install, but download all the packages I selected directly off the net
> > if they are updated or off the media if they are not, perhaps this is
> > what the live CD does and if so, great. Nothing more annoying to me,
> > than to install a new OS and then download 500+MB of patches. Why
> > couldn't it just get the current stuff to begin with? Normally when I
> > install Fedora, I don't select anything optional to install [desktop
> > apps (ie OO), dev tools, etc] and then after I am up and running I start
> > installing those items off the net.  But I come from a POV where
> > bandwidth is unlimited and fast.
> 
> There is a design flaw/bug somewhere in how rpm/yum interacts with iso media 
> (CD, DVD, NFS ISO) that prevents being able to enable updates correctly at 
> install time.
> 
> However if you start with say boot.iso and point to a network install point 
> (exploaded tree, not nfs iso), then you can add the updates repos during the 
> install and only the new packages will be installed.  We're working to make 
> this a smoother experience, but it will take time.

Any chance -updates repo will be enabled (or enable-able) during setup
in F7?
Will it require network install or will it support normal installs
(NFS-files, NFS-iso, ISO)

- Gilboa