I would like to see more of an emphasis on the "Core" part of the project, it would be nice if Fedora Core 2 could be released with just 1 or 2 installation CD images.
Until Fedora Extras really gets going, there's not really *that* much stuff that can be moved out. It's certainly possible to do a 2-CD binary distribution (I've done it), but you're trimming more than just fat. Basically, all the really crufty stuff is also the small stuff.
The easiest way to trim the most space is to remove a desktop, by far. But I don't think that's very practical for Core right now. More people want more desktops rather than less. :)
Is it possible to put all the gnome stuff on 1 cd and all the kde stuff on another and say if you want a gnome only install download cd 1 and cd 2 if you want a kde only install download cd 1 and 3 if you want to mix and match download all three? I'm not sure what the package size split between the two desktops and other generic stuff. Or alternatively have it so a standard install (no selection of packages other than default) or maybe a desktop/woorkstation install only uses the first two disks so that people have the option of a third disk that has all the not so used packages on it such as possibly all the language packs, not used often services such a nis/news/etc
I'm not sure how this would work with such things a dependancies etc for things like dicitionaries etc. It would also be nice to have an option in the installer for languages you want supported on a particular system. Sort of like these are the languages we support which do you want allowing easy removal during the install of things like Canna/FreeWnn/various language dictionaries etc. So you can do a full install just for English/Spanish/Whatever without getting the language stuff for other languages.
Just my thoughts Peter
Peter