[gobolinux-users] The idea of "base" and "full" iso downolad

[Jonas Karlsson]

2007/1/16, Lucas C. Villa Real <lucasvr at gobolinux.org>:
> On 1/16/07, molfar <molfar.ua at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear Gobo devs!
> >
> > For what I can see now - there is only one type of Gobo iso we can download
> > - a complete solution with many packages (about 700 MB).
> > What do you think about the idea of having two different images available
> > for download - "full" (like the one now) and "base" (or "core", "mini")
> > containing only the tools of utmost necessity to run the system - with the
> > size of such iso greatly reduced. I've seen this in Arch Linux and this
> > solution seems to be pretty convenient for many different reasons.
> > Besides, from what I know it may somehow improve the speed and effectiveness
> > of overall distro development and relevant bugfixing.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> The idea is good, of course. The problem is that the developer base is
> very small, and doing ISO releases is very time consuming. In fact,
> shipping two different versions of the distribution will add more
> overhead and take away the focus on development of
> tools/infrastructure and general bug fixings.
>
> You're all invited to join in the development of the distribution and
> try to prove me wrong, of course :-)
>
Since we changed how the ISO is constructed, can't we create a
squashsf image for base, normal(?) and full respectively? Then all(?)
that's needed to make a base ISO should be to just include the base
squashfs image (and change mount commands in the boot script?).

-- 
/Jonas