Frank Murphy wrote:
That *should not* be default for most users,
as it will end up breaking quite a lot,
if used with other repos. (updates,updates-tesing, 3rd party)
as %requires may have changed quite a bit since DVD was released.
That shouldn't be a problem as long as updates is enabled.
A more pertinent reason not to enable this by default is that many users
will misplace the DVD and prefer just downloading the packages. Many of them
have updates anyway.
For those users, they will receive updated packages from the internet
if there are any updates. And if there isn't any, yes the packages will
be installed from DVD. But this doesn't seem to be much inconvenience,
and also will be the natural thing to happen IMHO. I think the reasons
for having this enabled by default (while I've never talked about
having it enabled by default; being able to enable it using the
software sources selection is much much more convenient than the
current workarounds) are more acceptable. Anyway, I've never talked
about having them enabled by default.
As I've already said more than once, IMHO we should just add "broadband
Internet connection" to Fedora's system requirements, it's effectively
already required. Sure, you can get it to work without it with some manual
workarounds, but for Fedora to work properly out of the box, and to get
updates (including security fixes, critical bugfixes etc.), you need a
(reasonably fast) Internet connection.
1. Such manual workarounds can be fixed pretty easy; and IMHO they
should be fixed anyways. Everybody might sometimes be offline, and
should be able to work reasonably in that cases too (e.g. it is really
ridiculous to be unable to remove a package from your system when you
are offline because yum/packagekit cannot update repository metadata!).
Also I think the ability to install packages from installation media
(and any removable media containing a repository) is still reasonable
too (you can get updates as soon as you are online again).