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  • From: julian AT openit.de (Julian v. Bock)
  • To: Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>
  • Cc: "Derber, Geoffrey" <Geoffrey.Derber AT trinity.edu>, "'Eric Womack '" <eric AT lasvegasdata.com>, "'sm-discuss '" <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Reducing the ISO
  • Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 17:55:31 +0200

Hi

>>>>> "CH" == Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu> writes:

CH> How about having the installer decide (based on how you format
CH> your partitions) which of e2fsprogs, reiserfsprogs and xfsprogs to
CH> install. Immediately after an install I dispel reiserfsprogs and
CH> xfsprogs.

We could go further and install only the stuff that is needed to compile
the rest.

CH> netkit-telnet, traceroute and minicom can be useful for debugging
CH> purposes (or dialing in to BBSes :), but I don't think they
CH> necessarily should be installed. How about including the sources
CH> for these.

We could include them in the iso (as well as all the fs utils since
the iso is also a rescue disc) but don't put them into the base system
tarball.

Julian




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