2010/11/26 Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org:
What about the fact that we've always had a single merged distro layout for 2.1/3/4/5 ? There is a fairly consistent user experience and user expectation built around that as well, right ?
That's a good question. In recent years the size of all linux distibutions is greatly increased.
The other possibility: We make 2 DVDs for CentOS6 containing all packages. In any case, I would appreciate if we offer a network install CD like Red Hat.
Also, consider that having so many more isos and so many more repo's will also drastically increase the disk space requirements on mirrors. We could get around that to some extent using hardlinks between the repo's but the ISOS will need their own space.
Yes, this is the drawback.
On the other hand, CentOS 6 will be identical to RHEL6. This would make it easier for newcomers.
There are also the storage products, the computenode etc. Given that we have no support model, and it makes little sense to replicate pkgs for isos and base repo's I dont really see why we would want all that overhead.
The workstation and server version of CentOS 6 can indeed contain these packages.
We need only 2 versions: CentOS Server and Workstation containing all the upstream packages.
I am sure to continue to use [optional].
why :)
For clarity :)
Best regards,
Morten