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Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: |
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>> aside from that I don't have any "feature requests". For the benefit |
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>> of folks with slower hardware, you might want to think about |
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>> installing the binaries of Open Office, Firefox, Thunderbird and |
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>> Evolution on a networkless install from the CD. |
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> All of these packages (except maybe Evolution) are available on the |
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> LiveCD for installation as part of a networkless install with the |
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> installer. The LiveDVD should have Evolution as well. The installer |
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> won't install anything the user doesn't ask for. If you want it, check |
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> the box on the Extra Packages screen. |
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Yes, I know they're on the LiveCD. And if you install them networkless, |
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they install the regular "ebuild", not the "-bin" version. So the next |
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update makes you recompile. On slower machines, OpenOffice, for example, |
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takes a long time to recompile. But if you put "openoffice-bin" on the |
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LiveCD, that wouldn't happen. |
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Firefox, Evolution, Thunderbird and OpenOffice are packages just about |
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everybody loads, they're packages of significant size taking a fair |
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amount of time to recompile on a "typical 1 GHz" machine, and they have |
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frequent updates. In fact, I only started building OpenOffice from |
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source when I got my dual core Athlon64 X2 5200+ with 4 GB of RAM! |
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Maybe the dividing line should be CD vs. DVD. Put the "-bin" ones on the |
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LiveCD but put the compiled versions on the LiveDVD, or both, since |
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there's probably room for both on the DVD. |
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