On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:25 +0100, Joachim Frieben wrote:
> > The example of "Fedora Unity" already shows that
your suggestion is far
> fetched and unrealistic. I haven't found a single site yet which is
> mirroring the respun images.
>
> Do you have any suggestions?
>
> Rahul
Of course, leave things as they are: create install media for all spins and let
them mirror by the usual suspects! As I stated in my initial posting, even
including "Extras", the global size of the distribution is going to grow not
more
than a factor of 2,
That's the thing, though -- it _IS_ growing by more than that because of
the ISOs; many of the mirrors already carry Extras so the packages
aren't really an increase there. Every set of CDs has to contain the
kernel for example, which isn't exactly small :)
and the creation of particular install classes with specially
tailored and reduced media size leads me to the conclusion that (per user) download
volumes are even likely to decrease.
Download volume isn't really the main problem as much as backend storage
constraints. Download volume is only really a concern when we've
decided "this is the release" and have to get however many gigs of bits
to the mirrors in a short period of time so we can release.
Jeremy