[Mentalunix-developers] Re: MentalUnix, YoZilla, and other stuff [Yahoo! Clubs: mentalunix]

[Mentalspice <clu...@ya...>]

No debs. No compiler. Just a small, nice base system. The base system only needs the basics - a package manager, a simple text editor(no emacs or vi), and the file utilities. That is it. It should fit in under 30MB, and be stored as a large .bin file. The installer would mount it to a loop device, and copy its contents to the drive the user chooses(since it will be mounted, it will just copy / to /target, which is the target drive...just like in slackware). And, s/blender/bender/g ! Rewriting gecko is good, at least the non-GPL parts first. Then, comes code optiomization, then adding new features. 

Things like gcc(not egcs...its code was merged back into gcc!) and X would be debs. I like the idea of hacking dpkg to use rpms/tar.gz/sli packages(using things like librpm). If you've never noticed, rpm is just a nice little app that makes librpm do most of the work. This makes writing rpm apps easier than writing a new package manager. So, since I've never looked at the dpkg source, we could just add a switch and have it look for .rpm as the last 3 chars of the package name, and then run the InstallRPM(char[]) function we would write.

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