On Feb 27, 2005, Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 04:22 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Feb 26, 2005, seth vidal <skvidal(a)phy.duke.edu> wrote:
>> I believe extras functions b/c they are are over 901 packages in
>> extras.
[snip]
> Sure having CDs of Extras available for download would address part of
> the problem: people would still be able to ask friends with big pipes
> to download and burn CDs for them. But how convenient is the
> experience of installing packages from such CDs be? Anaconda won't be
> able to install packages from such CDs; will system-config-packages?
Yes. And firstboot even asks for such CDs. And has since before
Fedora
existed :)
Yeah, I know. But firstboot doesn't run for kickstart installs, for
one, and kickstart can't use Extras CDs, so you're stuck with doing
the post-install stage by hand. Yuck.
Also, see the other points about making the CDs available in a form
that won't get users in dependency hell.
What if I want to install a package from an Extras CD that depends on
a Core package that I didn't install? Will it let me know which Core
CD contains it?
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