On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 20:43 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> said:
> How can this be a bad thing? Once we get to the point
> where we spin ISO sets that are Core and Extras packages to complete a
> theme or goal (Fedora Desktop, Fedora Web Server, Fedora Development,
> etc..) then does it _really_ matter if its in Core or Extras? This is
> why I said "yet" as we need to get to where "shipped" isos have
the
> content necessary for that goal of theme.
I think the resistance is because Extras _today_ is a "second class
citizen" WRT installs. At some point, hopefully that won't be true, but
there is no denying it _today_. Things have been pushed to Extras for a
bit now with the promise of easy install in the future, but it hasn't
yet materialized. I'm not complaining; I understand that 5 CDs (with
the 5th already well over half full) is a bit much, but there's another
3G+ of stuff in Extras that it would be nice to install without having
to download each time, and you can't do that with FC5 or FC6T1.
FWIW, the backend support is actually present in test1 for multiple
repositories and you can do it from kickstart. The big things still
outstanding are
* UI to configure this for the !kickstart case -- this should happen
before test2
* The ability to handle multiple _CD_ repositories -- this is trickier
due to the fact that the installer is running off of the CD and we'd
need to have that image somewhere else. I expect there won't be a
_full_ answer here for FC6, but maybe for people with "enough" RAM,
it'll be doable
Jeremy