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  • From: Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>
  • To: SM-Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Adding more required packages to the stable release process
  • Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 14:17:31 -0500

On May 23, Eric Sandall [eric AT sandall.us] wrote:
> David Kowis wrote:
> <snip>
> > Lets operate in the opposite direction. More is happening on the
> > grimoire than on the ISO. Let's pick what we want to support starting
> > from nothing, and we'll get that onto the ISO. I feel that is a much
> > better way to do it. And we'll get the same end result and we'll both be
> > happy :)
> >
> > Sound good?
>
> Yep. :)
>
> In that vein, here is my list of additional packages to be added to the
> stable release cycle:

I agree with what David has said so far and I think this list is much
better as far as "what packages are important", but it's still too long
IMO. The goal is to extend the scope gradually. I would say as a rule of
thumb we should probably not add more than 6-10 at a time.

> cvs
> device-mapper
> dhcpcd
> distcc
> g++
> git
> groff
> jfsutils
> libtool
> lvm
> man
> man-pages
> mdadm
> metalog
> minicom
> ndiswrapper
> nfs-utils
> openssl
> openssh
> pciutils
> pkgconfig
> portmap
> ppp
> reiserfsprogs
> rp-pppoe
> sysfsutils
> sysklogd
> syslog-ng
> tcp_wrappers
> which
> wireless_tools
> xfsprogs
> yaboot
>
> Boot loaders (yaboot), system loggers, network connectivity tools, and
> file system tools, and their dependencies (plus git and cvs ;)).

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