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On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:57:29AM -0400 or thereabouts, John Davis wrote: |
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> If we can do this without Samba, great, but if we can't, we need to |
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> seriously evaluate adding it to the LiveCD. Earlier, someone in the |
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> thread posed the question of its importance. SMB shares compose the |
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> majority of file shares out there, so we should be able to support it |
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> fully ;) |
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We should be making decisions based on user demand, not our perception of |
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user demand. I searched for "samba livecd" on the forums and only found |
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one thread (out of over 1.25 million posts) where it was even discussed.[1] |
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That thread is almost 2 years old. Searching the gentoo-user archives, I |
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didn't find a single thread where users were asking for samba support on |
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the livecd. |
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Conversely, I have spoken to *several* people at the various LWEs who still |
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use the Gentoo Linux 1.2 installation CD. Why? Because it's ~15MB and |
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isn't loaded with bloat. (their words, not mine) |
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I don't think the user demand is out there to support further increasing |
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the size of the LiveCD, especially with something as large as samba. |
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--kurt |
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[1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=24991 |
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