On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Horst H. von Brand
<vonbrand(a)inf.utfsm.cl> wrote:
Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora(a)leemhuis.info> wrote:
> On 23.10.2008 18:56, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > Neither will the meaning of 'minimal' be. Will it have networking?
> > Will it have yum? Will it have ssh? Will it speak my language? So on,
> > and so forth.
>
> Not sure if my mind plays tricks with me, but I got the impression
> that I hear something like the above as a "shoot the discussion down"
> argument every few days right now... This is starting to annoy me, as
> statements like the above don't lead anywhere: Decisions have to be
> made; repeatably pointing out that it's hard to do them doesn't bring
> us a tiny bit further. So please:
>
> Just let a group of interested people make a decision and realize it
> as a feature for F11! Then we hopefully can get rid of this topic
> (which seems to pop up every few weeks...).
That /has/ been done (yes, I've been around since Red Hat 3.x days), and it
made /never/ everybody happy, thus the recurring flamewars on the
topic. When they say here that it _can't_ be solved it is not out of
lazyness, it is out of (often bitter) experience.
What is minimal for me is sorely lacking while barroquely bloated for the
next interested party.
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I have to agree with Jesse and Horst because I remember the "minimal"
install option too and any option I chose always disappointed because
I found I had to add stuff to the minimal installs and remove stuff
from the other installs.
So I like what we currently have more. It builds up less expectation
and therefore disappoints less. ;-) And that is all you can hope for
given the extreme visability of the feature.
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