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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>:
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 14:44, Jason Flatt wrote:
> > In the 0.9.2 ISO install I did, I needed to compile the kernel to get my
> > network card working correctly, so I'd say this is a 'must have'.
> 
> what network card ? was it not compiled or was it compiled with wrong 
> options ? Or was it the netconf bug were it wrote $module.ko to the eth#,dev
> 
> file ? 
> Also, I would like to receive all these (minor or major ?) bug reports, 
> There
> 
> is no point in me spending all this time and effort if developers and users 
> don't get what they want and chances are if something didn't work for you, 
> then it will similarly fail for another user so it is a bug and should be 
> fixed for the next release.
> ISO bugs will no longer be left unaddressed for months on end, so please 
> report them and the ISO and install process will advance thanks to your 
> feedback. 
> 
> Oh, and perl would have been installed if you chose to compile the kernel 
> during install, the question was whether everyone should have it forced into
> 
> their new system or just those that wanted or needed it. 

If perl is going to be on the iso_root, but optional for install to the 
system,
I'd say don't install perl by default and let the packages properly depend on
it (as they seem to).

-sandalle

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