On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Jason Straight wrote: > What about my laptop that I use for server testing and therefore have almost > all servers installed, which I also use for multimedia purposes. I think it > would be better to have mandrake just focus on getting 1 good distro out, > instead of 3 or 4. Rather than have multiple sub distro's I like the idea of > having one distro with all the options. The distrobution itself doesn't chose > what I install, I do. If I want multimedia I install multimedia apps and > kernels, if I want server I install server, but if I want both I don't have > to mix and match from different CD sets, or go compiling. The reason I chose > mandrake above all others is really nothing more than their excellenct choice > of packages in the distro. The guys at Mandrake seem to package almost every > title I use, and that saves me a lot of compile time.
The various editions would be nothing more than subsets of the whole shebang, so to speak. Hell, most mirrors would carry, between main and contribs, everything. The separate editions would only be different CD images and different hdlists (if you chose to do a net-install). It would be easy to place packages from the same generation of contribs or main onto a custom CD image (with a custom hdlist). These would not be separate distros, per se, merely subsets of a super-distro. You could pick the sub-distro that best fits your basic needs and then add stuff from the common pool to flesh out what you need. These would all be from the same Cooker... Levi Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
