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keesan2 AT cyberspace.org wrote:
> 
> As I mentioned earlier, I have not until now 
> (when you said to use zless) noticed that bin.tgz 
> never actually got installed 

And as I mentioned earlier, pkgtool depends on
the bin.tgz package.

> so there cannot be too much essential in there.  

That depends on how you define essential.  My goal 
was to provide a foundation that behaves like Slackware 
(including the full Slackware package management system).

> Could you just pick out whatever file or files you 
> consider important in there (to avoid error messages)
> and make your own package instead of bin.tgz?  And 
> also do the same for fileutls?
> Is it possible to offer one bl2.tgz package instead
> of the four 

That's what I did with BL1.  If you want a compact,
minimalistic installation, it's hard to beat BL1.
But the goal of BL2 is different:  a minimalistic
ramdisk that transforms itself into a real Slackware.

> and give people the choice of downloading your package, 
> or using the four complete slackware packages (in case 
> they have the CD)?

I expect most people who install BL2 to HD will use
the Slackware 7.1 CDrom (by burning their own or
buying it for $1).  Installing from CDrom is *much*
simpler.

Cheers,
Steven