Once upon a time, Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com said:
Starting with Fedora 7, there is no more Core, and no more Extras; there is only Fedora. One single repository, built in the community on open source tools, assembled into whatever spins the Fedora community desires.
How will this be distributed? Will ISOs still be available that cover the whole repository? Right now, Core has release targets (and then updates), while Extras is a rolling target. Lots of users (and potential users) don't have high speed or even reliable Internet access; they need everything they install to be on physical media.
I've said this before because of previous experiences trying to help a friend with only modem access, but now I'm mailing DVDs to another friend stationed in Iraq. Having a "GNOME DVD" and a "KDE DVD" and a "Server DVD" doesn't really help, since I can't anticipate what he'll want (and all three DVDs would have a bunch in common, wasting space).