Gentoo Archives: gentoo-releng

From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>
To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] Call for feature request for 2008.0
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:05:57
Message-Id: 479F40D4.6020207@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-releng] Call for feature request for 2008.0 by "Mirosław Mieszczak"
1 Mirosław Mieszczak wrote:
2 > That would be nice to see midnight commander on live-cd, as it allow quick
3 > browsing over all directories, especially for new gentoo users (of course in
4 > case if they don't use installer).
5
6 There already GUI file managers on the LiveCD.
7
8 > Second thing I would like to see just on live-cd is kernel module for reiser4
9 > (of course in that case it should be with adnotation that this particular fs
10 > isn't supported by gentoo), there are many users who use this filesystem, and
11 > all of them must prepare their own livecd to install, or to repair the
12 > system.
13
14 No. (Do I have to say more? :P)
15
16 You will see reiserfs4 support on the LiveCD when support for it is included
17 upstream in the kernel. The gentoo-sources patchset doesn't (and never will)
18 contain "experimental" features like that.
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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