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From: Tobias Scherbaum <dertobi123@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: Accessibility on our release media
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 16:16:38
Message-Id: 1243181729.6240.6.camel@homer.ob.libexec.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: Accessibility on our release media by Roy Bamford
1 Roy Bamford wrote:
2 > Put all the downloads for a minimal gentoo install into dial up
3 > context. You need the minimal CD, the stage 3, the portage snapshot, a
4 > bootloader and a kernel.
5 >
6 > An extra 20Mb in that total size is trivial.
7 >
8 > Having done a few remote installs for blind users dropping into
9 > #gentoo, I understand the frustration that lack of accessibility
10 > causes.
11 >
12 > Please add accessibility to Gentoo install media and help our users to
13 > help themselves.
14
15 Thanks Roy, that's basically what I was thinking of. An extra 20 megs
16 really doesn't matter these days.
17
18 Plus building another additional "accessibility-enabled minimal cd" adds
19 more (unneeded) complexity and takes another 100 megs per image per
20 mirror - therefore that's not an option, imo.
21
22 Tobias

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