Gentoo Archives: gentoo-releng

From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] samba on the livecds
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 20:12:56
Message-Id: 1088540329.20001.125.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-releng] samba on the livecds by Jason Huebel
1 On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 14:58, Jason Huebel wrote:
2 > My concern with this approach is that as soon as you give users the option,
3 > they'll vote for adding on more feature bloat.
4
5 Agreed. It'll also be all of the users from America, with an Xbox, a
6 couple Windows machines, and a cable modem that'll ask for it. The guy
7 on dial-up in Indonesia will be forced to download an ISO that is "x"
8 amount bigger, with nothing useful for him.
9
10 As I said, if there is a problem mounting SMB shares, we should fix it
11 (what about AFS? Coda? Where does it end?), but I'm definitely opposed
12 to adding the full-blown samba package to every LiveCD.
13
14 --
15 Chris Gianelloni
16 Release Engineering QA Manager/Games Developer
17 Gentoo Linux
18
19 Is your power animal a penguin?

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