Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:23:44 +0000
Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thinking more about this I think my personal wishlist/vision would be something
like this:
CD1: Live/Rescue/Base system
CD-Desktop-Base
CD-Desktop-Office
CD-Desktop-Multimedia
...
CD-Server-Web
CD-Server-Mail
CD-Server-SQL
...
CD-Developer-Web
CD-Developer-Programming
...
CD-Scientific-Math
...
Andrei
I think this is an excellent strategy - especially the base install
doubling as a live CD.
What would happen to packages like Apache and Exim? You might expect to
find them in more than one CD eg Base, Web, Mail etc.
I would rather keep light packages in base and put the heavy machinery on the special
CDs. This way you get lots of functionality with the base CD, but if you really need to
set up a "heavy" server you would download the respective CD.
Meaning packages like exim-daemon-light in base, and exim-daemon-heavy
in server-mail? Good idea.
Would you end up with a lot more CDs because the packages do not
completely fill a particular CD? Perhaps you could get around this by
making your list a list of sections rather than CDs. Then you could have
the sections spanning CDs in order to fill the space. You would put the
sections in the order you suggest so that desktop users would only need
the first few CDs. This would be equivalent to the idea of "Debian
Lite". Sysadmins or developers probably have such fat internet
connections that downloading a larger number of CDs or installing via
HTTP/FTP is not an inconvenience.
Chris.
Or maybe use jigdo to build your own CD-set according to task and/or individual
package selections?
Now that's a really good idea! It means that specialist distros could be
created very easily.
Any chance of any of this actually happenning?
Chris.
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