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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] ISO suggestion
  • Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 08:17:27 -0700

Quoting Rohan Nicholls <rohan.nicholls AT pareto.nl>:
> Back again.
>
> As I have been wandering around the world of distros, I have noticed a
> few things that I found helpful.
>
> When I installed crux the xorg system was an optional part of the
> initial install which would have been really helpful with smgl. When
> the computer spent all day compiling it would have been handy to have
> had it going in the background while I am able to work in an X session.
> The work I am doing at the moment is web based so a graphical browser is
> a necessity. If I had realized before I would have installed xorg
> first, got it set up with window managers etc. and then started it going
> and let the system update itself in the background while I worked.
>
> So my suggestion is to adjust the iso to have xorg binaries installed if
> desired. As you need a fairly modern system for smgl to make sense
> pretty much all the videocards will let you get a decent resolution
> using the vesa driver.
>
> Having to rebuild xorg later is not a big problem if you are happily
> working away in the present setup, and not waiting for things to finish,
> so the extra time is not really noticeable.
>
> Just a suggestion....

The problem with this (while it would be nice for some) is that many use SMGL
because it doesn't install much in the beginning. ;) However, you do say that
xorg could be optional (such as the NFS and SSH installs), but that would
increase the ISO size quite a bit.

I am not necessary against this as it would be a "nice" feature, but others
may
not like it.

What do people think of adding xorg (and only xorg, not xfree86) and, say,
blackbox (it's small and fast) as an optional install?

-sandalle

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