Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] [Fwd: Re: integration of DansGuardian into Devil-Linux?]

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

> > Dansguardian is already in DL, and has been for some time.
> 
> from changes file (1.2.10):
> ---
> - tar'ed up dansguardian /etc/ files and put in /config on CD,
>   must be manually installed in this DL release (bs)
> ---
> 
> IIRC this was because of the uncertain licensing policy.

No, I believe we did that for a different reason.

There are some packages that have large amounts of data in /etc.  And
since /etc/ is in ram-disk, it's wasting a lot of memory for people who
don't use those packages.  Plus the 'save-config' tar file may get too
large to fit on a floppy.

So, we've been tarring up some of the packages with large /etc/ usage
and putting it on the CD.  People who run those packages will need to
untar the data from the CD into their /etc.

This saves a lot of memory and 'save-config' disk space for everyone.

I guess we need to document this better.  Maybe something in the
official DL docs?  Heiko?  (I never learned how to do that)  :-)

 - BS