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On Fri, Feb 15, 2019, 21:39 Marcin Szydelski <mar...@szydelscy.pl> wrote:

> +1. Very good idea.
>
> Pozdrawiam/Best regards,
> Marcin Szydelski
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> pt., 15 lut 2019 o 17:01 Julen Landa Alustiza <ju...@zokormazo.info>
> napisaƂ(a):
>
>> +1 here. totally agree with
>>
>> Stephen Gallagher <sgall...@redhat.com> igorleak hau idatzi zuen (2019
>> ots. 15, or. 16:49):
>>
>>> For a long time, the Fedora Server Edition has provided a fairly
>>> lightweight default installation, but a fairly heavyweight DVD. This
>>> is because we opted to include a lot of infrastructure-related content
>>> on the disk, such as BIND, FreeIPA, MariaDB and PostgreSQL, among
>>> others.
>>>
>>> The reality these days is that this is probably more or less
>>> unnecessary. There's no such thing as a server that is not connected
>>> to a network and since we aren't shipping the entirety of the Fedora
>>> package collection on this disk, inevitably anyone installing from it
>>> is going to need to have access to package mirrors anyway.
>>>
>>> So I'd like to propose that we get rid of nearly the entirety of the
>>> <optionlist> section from comps.xml[1][2] and variants-fedora.xml[3].
>>> The result will be a far smaller install DVD, less space wasted on the
>>> mirrors (both for the DVD and the install tree) and very little
>>> difference in user experience.
>>>
>>> Arguments against this have historically been that having it all on
>>> one disk is better for network-constrained environments to avoid
>>> downloading content multiple times. Realistically, however, I think
>>> this is generally going to be solved by local mirroring in most
>>> real-world scenarios.
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/blob/master/f/comps-f30.xml.in
>>> [2] With the exception of the "server-hardware-support" and
>>> "guest-agents" which may be needed for proper installation, depending
>>> on the hardware.
>>> [3] https://pagure.io/pungi-fedora/blob/master/f/variants-fedora.xml
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