[CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
> On 03/03/2011 11:44 PM, Jimmy Bradley wrote:
>>     I do have one question about Cent OS 6.
>> Sonetimes back, I remember reading that the plan was to spread the iso's
>> over multiple cd's, rather than put it all on 1 dvd. Is that still the
>> plan? As far as when it's released, I say take all the time you need.
>> I'd rather have an os that works, than something that's just thrown
>> together, and is about as stable as windows me, or vista.
>>
>
> That will depend upon how upstream wrote the item that splits the RPMs.
>  The distros are getting so big now that it might not make sense to
> continue to create CDs ... CentOS 5.6 will have at least 8 (and maybe 9)
> CDs for x86_64.  I would expect that number to grow for CentOS 6.  In
> fact, we already had to split 5.5 x86_64 over 2 DVDs, and both arches
> for CentOS 6 will likely be 2 DVDs.

And even the DVD's are hitting limits. The current RHEL 6 Server DVD
does not contain python-docutils or audiofile-devel, they're part of a
separate "optional" channel. (This just drove me insane trying to
recompile nx and neatx, I was *very* surprised they weren't part of
the basic channel.)

CentOS doesn't maintain all these distinct "channels" they can just
leave off of the installation media, so may face a size burden trying
to get all those nominally "other channel" components onto one DVD,
especially that "optional" channel.