rpmfusion based spin

[Andreas Thienemann]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:

> You're right, I'm unable to think of a way that would currently work. It 
> could be done, but it'd reintroduce the "Do you want to use any 
> additional media (...)" dialog in anaconda and would only appear *after* 
> the initial installation is done already.

Exactly. Furthermore, it's questionable if we'd ever get this code into 
upstream anaconda.
 
[The rpmfusion assistant... ]
> Instead, I'd just recreate the Fedora released media to include the 
> RPMFusion Free/Non-Free additional repositories (with a product.img) and 
> be done with it (of course, rebrand the lot).

More pain, less gain. This sounds as if you're just rolling a spin with a 
changed fedora-artworks package and a rpmfusion-release rpm added into the 
mix.
I'm a bit concerned that this will result in a lot of technically 
illiterate users installung "our fedora" because "it just works!!!111!!" 
and then come crying back to usthat it doesn't look like fedora, that we 
broke something or whatever else they can come up with.
In the end we either ignore this resulting in a lot of frustration vented 
on digg or ./. Or alternatively, we spent lots of our limited time helping 
these guys.

So I'd personally prefer to just offer an add-on disk and be done with it.

But on the other hand... Talk is cheap. If you wanna run with it, hey, 
knock yourself out. :-)

> Really, if a GUI is going to pop up on inserting some media with 
> software, PackageKit should be the one taking it on.

Ohhh right, the .*Kit madness. Does PackageKit works nowadays? I installed 
F9 on my workstation some time ago and found the only way to get it to 
work was to configure both PackageKit and NetworkManagerKit with "rpm -e 
--with-prejudice=extreme". Then my problems went away. :-)
I'm not to fond of this Kit stuff... But that's just me going off on a 
rant... I'm sure these tools work just splendid for everyone else.
 

> > Personally speaking:_WHY_ we'd need such a cd however is beyond me, I 
> > haven't touched a CD or DVD in years. PXE does that to you....
> It's a good thing everyone has PXE at home these days ;-)

Hey, don't knock it. The time setting up a PXE server at home (takes what? 
15min for the uninitiated?) is well spent...

regards,
 andreas