On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 4:50 PM Stephen Gallagher <sgall...@redhat.com> wrote:
> 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. > Makes sense to me. > > > [1] https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/blob/master/f/comps-f30.xml.in To be exact, you mean adjusting just "<id>server-product-environment</id>" section, right? https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/blob/611004df1857f118f1d25ab1218124dd6144994d/f/comps-f30.xml.in#_6262 > > [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 > _______________________________________________ > test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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