Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: Accessibility on our release media

[Dale]

William Hubbs wrote:
> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 08:12:17PM -0500, Dale wrote:
> > Ferris McCormick wrote:
> >> If the 20MB is a real problem, I think the alternative is to have two
> >> versions of the "minimal CD".  Otherwise it seems to me that Gentoo is
> >> discriminating against people who cannot see the screen, and I would
> >> consider that to be very tacky at best.
> >>
> >> Someone (rdalek1967) said the problem was an extra 2.5 hours time for
> >> download over dialup.  If that is correct, we are looking at 12.5 hours
> >> instead of 10 hours (about 25% increase, but 10 hours is a long time,
> >> and I don't know that 12.5 hours is subjectively that much longer).
> >>
> >> So, to answer William's original question, one way or another we should
> >> provide a minimal CD with the speech software on it in my opinion.
>
> Keep in mind that if we produce a separate cd with the speech software,
> that means yet another cd for each architecture that we know the speech
> software runs on, so I think the better route would be to just put it on
> all of our media that we produce for the affected architectures instead
> of asking releng to produce a separate cd for each release or autobuild.
>


I agree.  I think it is a good idea regardless of if it is a separate CD
or not.  If the people that does this wants to make it a separate CD,
that's cool too.  Otherwise, just add it to the CD that we already have.

Dale

:-)  :-)