Hi,
On 10/20/2010 07:34 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
To me, it would be more effective (from a space perspective) to align a little more closely with how RHEL distributes and have a 'core' or> I second that option. Not to mention that I do not even remember that
There are two major implications from doing this :
1) we change what is the expected tree / behaviour in CentOS-2.1/3/4/5 - in that there is one rolled in product; and people would have come to expect that.
2) Storage and duplicated rpms across isos's : its not that big a deal in that we can most likely work around the need to have a lot more storage on each mirror / msync machine; but it is a concern.
The big issue is going to be (1), where it could potentially change the game for a lot of people. I am not sure if we really want to go down that route. There is a hybrid option, in that we have a consolidated tree with multiple DVD's for everyone who wants the whole distro; while we also create some more role-specific iso spins and maybe bring back the server isos[1].
- KB
[1]: given that lots of people have asked or it, I have done some work on this and hope to have a 5.5/server.iso for QA in the next few weeks with the hope that we can release something like this with 5.6 as an additional iso.