[Mageia-dev] Updating a new install is too long...

Sat Nov 5 16:34:53 CET 2011

Op zaterdag 05 november 2011 16:24:17 schreef Pierre Jarillon:
+[...]
+> Then it is too much to be stored in a cheap DVD.
+> IMO, when the size of a branch reaches such a size, an updated release
+> should be issued. Remember that a lot of people have a slow link to
+> internet. Mandriva did such updated releases which all work better than
+> the original, improving the confidence in the distro.
+> Today, a woman who has installed Mageia alone and for the first time, said
+> me that update is so much long that she thought the distro was broken.
+[...]
+
+If we were to use the updates directly when installing (ie: not install first 
+then update, but use updated packages at install time), we could even say, 
+have an "Update CD/DVD", which just contains the packages in question and use 
+that instead of eg: mirrors...
+
+This would effectively solve the problem even when not rereleasing mageia. It's 
+true that Mandriva did .0 and .1 but they also had yearly release and not 
+9months...
+