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From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>
To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] Call for feature requests for 2008.0 - Universal-CD
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:58:07
Message-Id: 47A78A6E.3060304@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-releng] Call for feature requests for 2008.0 - Universal-CD by Markus Hauschild
1 Markus Hauschild wrote:
2 > On Feb 4, 2008 10:47 PM, Peter Weber <peterle@×××××××××××××.org> wrote:
3 >>> The LiveDVD includes stages and a snapshot.
4 >> Interesting and good, but the LiveDVD is, let us say the truth -
5 >> overkill.
6 >>
7 >> A other good solution would be merging Universal and Minimal-CD
8 >> togehter, so we offer only a smaller Universal-CD (about 200-400 MB) and
9 >> a complete LiveCD (about 700 MB).
10 >
11 > I'd love a minimal + stage3 + portage-snapshot + stuff you really need
12 > (kernel sources, grub, maybe a syslogger)
13 > But I guess I'd have to make that one myself then (and then its not
14 > worth the effort)
15
16 That doesn't even make sense. A universal CD is nothing but a minimal plus some
17 stuff. You can't merge them together, unless you're talking about getting rid of
18 the minimal all together, and then that's even dumber.
19
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21 Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
22 Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-releng] Call for feature requests for 2008.0 - Universal-CD Peter Weber <peterle@×××××××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-releng] Call for feature requests for 2008.0 - Universal-CD Markus Hauschild <hauschild.markus@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-releng] Call for feature requests for 2008.0 - Universal-CD Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net>