On 7/11/07, Paul Mattal <paul@mattal.com> wrote:
I support reorganizing, but like the fact that a single full CD can give me a pretty useful system if I'm a disconnected install.
Here's what I find silly about the "1 cd" requirement. Not only can squashfs, with varying compression levels, make this a never ending argument as to the real size, we also generally support "modern hardware" (or used to). This means that we should probably be supporting DVDs. Now, go ask around. I'll bet ya any money that most people you ask install from the base or ftp isos. Most people who like the current ISO are more like you - it's more of a special case thing. Well, lets run with that. If this is a special case for some and not all users, why don't we throw some tools at it? Make some tools that create a repo-on-a-disk and just use that? This seems way more ideal and won't cause us to split our workload (or, rather, won't cause Andy and tpowa to do extra work they probably won't use) for more edge case stuff. Most people are drawn to Arch because of the minimal/lightweight aspect. No one says "I'll install as many packages as I can! And ones that other people chose for me to boot!"