On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 11:55:44PM +0200, Andreas Radke wrote:
this is right if you think off users with huge bandwidth connections. but we had it already twice in Germany that a printed LinuxMagazin included the full iso, they also asked for a dvd. that always made Arch more public here and brought new users to the Arch community.
Ok... so then if we have too many packages to fit on whatever they want to distribute, make up a nice subset of packages for those situations.. that's what I said wasn't it?
but then there's also the world with poor bandwith connection where still poeple want to use Arch. do you remember how often users requested a new installation cd release in the past?
Sure, that's why we have our current release schedule. And we're actually following it this time :)
and there's still my intention having ArchLinux prepared for a stable branch that would really need to have DVD medias with all packages.
sure the repos can be much larger. at least we have to make sure there's an easy way to build DVD snapshots on one or more medias whenever we want.
So make a way. -S