Hello,
> I will translate a french expression: You want the butter, the money of
> the butter and in addition the woman selling it
Sounds good, why not? :-)
But seriously, the idea of "jumbo patches" combining more
simple ones is not new - e.g. HP makes it for years.
M$ service packs are similar, but don't allow to
pick what you want and what you don't.
> You ask RedHat to spend resources (ie $$$) in provinding for free a
> far better product than the boxed version. This is _far_ more than
> what is demanded by GPL.
Well, regardless of what they do, someone will cry - IIRC
they once produced boxed versions with different images
and that resulted in even more confusion. This is
bad way to go - the appr. half-year cycles of producing
new versions are fast enough.
The idea of "pristine sources and patches" used in rpms
is good and can be also applied at higher level -
"pristine image and updates".
I think that a method of combining more patches to jumbo
ones is surely worth discussing. This needn't be anything
complicated - simply tarring up the rpms and providing
a script looking inside and freshening what is necessary
suffices fully. So someone who is installing a fresh system
picks an image and a "service pack" - the installation
environment could even ask if the user have some
available. After the installation it is up to the
user which way he/she prefers.
Regards
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Stano
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