Xfce on the installation DVD (was Re: Regarding XFCE wiki page)

[Adam Miller]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 08:34:23PM +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 18.01.2011, 13:12 -0500 schrieb Brock Hudson:
> > Would it be appropriate to include the DVD, I know by default it
> > doesn't include Xfce but adding 1 additional repository before
> > installation allows you install more than just KDE and Gnome.
> 
> BTW: This is something we want to change for F15. We just need to come
> up with a few suggestions to free space on the DVD in order to convince
> release engineering.
> 
> Suggestions:
>       * eclipse-pde (82,1 MB)
>       * scribus and scribus-doc (21,4 MB)
>       * gnome-games-help (18,1 MB)
>       * evolution-help (16,7 MB)
> 
> To me eclipse-pde looks most promising: It's not required for eclipse
> and it's plugins but only for developing *new* eclipse-plugins. If we
> remove scribus we will have to mess the design-team and for the help
> packages with the GNOME desktop folks. ;)
> 
> Removing eclipse-pde will free enough space to include both Xfce and
> LXDE and more, say Moblin/Megoo or Sugar.
<SNIP>

That's awesome! I can't imagine the ability to develop new eclipse
plugins from a fresh DVD install without a yum command would add more
value than at minimum two more Desktop Environment choices off the
installation menu.

Hope that goes through! 

-AdamM