Why bother shrinking it?

Why bother shrinking it?

Posted Feb 24, 2005 2:53 UTC (Thu) by lakeland (subscriber, #1157)
Parent article: How would you shrink Fedora?

In debian, the first CD contains the most used packages, the second CD
contains the second most used packages, and so on. This seems to fix
virtually all of the criticisms raised in the attached email.

If Fedora went down this route, then a magazine could just attach the
first two CDs and halve their media costs. As for downloading, some users
will insist on getting everything, but equally a lot of users will realise
they only need the first CD to do the install. Overall I would guess
bandwidth will stay the same.

Of course, it is impossible to decide exactly what to put on the CDs -- A
hangul language kit might be unused by 99% of the users, but absolutely
necessary for any Korean users. Labelling the CDs (core, office,
entertainment, java) would avoid some but not all of that problem.

Corrin

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