Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Software Additions

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> >Let me say first that I'm NOT in favor of a DVD distro, which leaves us
> >with two other options (as far as I can tell):
> >
> >1)  Get tough and start rejecting software requests.
> >
> >2)  Keep accepting all/most reasonable requests and plan on creating
> >multiple editions (ISO's) sometime in the future.
> >
> >I'm actually leaning toward #2.  If we go with #1 and don't accept
> >another software request ever again, we'll still run out of room someday
> >because existing packages will continue growing in size.
> 
> I agree with 2, too. ;-)

Yeah.  I'd only agree with #1 if I get what *I* want included!  ;-)

Speaking of adding crap, how about "gpm"?  
Sometimes it'd be nice to be able to copy/paste stuff with a mouse.
And it'd be easier for users to send exact error messages to us!  :-)

> We were talking about this earlier, it should be fairly easy to add
> profiles to our menuconfig.

Deciding what to put in the profiles will be the difficult thing.
Everyone will want a different combination, like the recent poster 
who's running Samba on his firewall because money is tight ...
(not picking on him, I just see Samba being in a different profile
that the firewall stuff)

 - BS