Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Software Additions

[Heiko Z. <hz...@pr...>]

On 10/16/2003 10:47:37 AM Bruce Smith wrote:
>> >Let me say first that I'm NOT in favor of a DVD distro, which leave=
s
>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 creatin=
g
>> >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!  ;-)

Same here. ;-)

>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!  :-)

Why not....

>> 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)

I would say we do it base on our best judgment.
If a user really doesn't like how we selected it: get the build system =
and
create your own version.

cya
  Heiko
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