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Network install overdue

Posted Mar 16, 2006 22:16 UTC (Thu) by kornak (guest, #17589)
In reply to: Network install overdue by JoeBuck
Parent article: Fedora core 5 will (temporarily) break non-GPL modules

There is a contradiction in your complaint. If Fedora provided a smaller
initial installation, how would that decrease the network update? It would
increase as you would be downloading more packages. There is a certain
balance now as most of what people are looking for is included on the
CD/DVD. If they remove these packages everyone would have to do a massive
update on each installation.

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Posted Mar 17, 2006 3:08 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

It depends. If the distro is downloaded for just one installation, any unused package on CD is wasted bandwidth, and every downloaded package is downloaded just once. If the CD is going to be shared, then indeed, every package on CD is downloaded once, but the extra packages will be downloaded more than once.

Network install overdue

Posted Mar 18, 2006 1:44 UTC (Sat) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

The bandwidth saved is that the ISOs are not downloaded in the first place; the current version of each package needed is downloaded only once (except for those packages that are in the base install).

After a working system is configured, then of course the bandwidth needed to keep it current is just the same.