Re: [gentoo-releng] samba on the livecds

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 12:49, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> We should be making decisions based on user demand, not our perception of
> user demand.  I searched for "samba livecd" on the forums and only found
> one thread (out of over 1.25 million posts) where it was even discussed.[1]
> That thread is almost 2 years old.  Searching the gentoo-user archives, I
> didn't find a single thread where users were asking for samba support on
> the livecd.

I agree.  While I do think it would be a worthwhile venture to include
the ability to mount a SMB share, it should definitely not come at the
cost of dramatically enlarging our LiveCD.

> Conversely, I have spoken to *several* people at the various LWEs who still
> use the Gentoo Linux 1.2 installation CD.  Why?  Because it's ~15MB and
> isn't loaded with bloat.  (their words, not mine)

I've been wondering what we can do to not only give users the
functionality that they need to install, but also to keep the CD small. 
I will be focusing even more on this for 2004.3 and beyond, as I feel
that we're now in the phase of stabilization for 2004.2 and don't want
to change what we have now too dramatically.  Sure, I'll test some new
stuff, but it won't go onto the CDs, simply because there isn't enough
time to test out new things for 2004.2 and ensure quality.  I would love
to see our CD go back below 32MB, and even lower, if possible.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering QA Manager/Games Developer
Gentoo Linux

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