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> I am requesting that we add the following to all of our release media |
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> for amd64 and x86: |
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Great, when? This debate has been going on and being requested for about 2 |
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years now. |
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> My question for the group is, how do you feel about speech software |
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> being on our minimal cd as well as our live cd? |
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Personally, i have had the following experiences with releng: |
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-- They have written a great piece of software -- Catalyst -- to build |
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release media, as a result, we COULD in theory build our own. |
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-- Catalyst has no real maual, and a note to the effect that the web- |
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page is hidiously out of date. |
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-- Releng have been uncooperative in the past when i have asked them to |
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help support there own software. In fact i ended up filing a bug on |
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it for them. To give you some idea how far gone some of that code is, |
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it was in the option processing code, the simplest bit. |
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-- Releng are overworked, they're champs but they have too much to do, i |
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asked if they wanted help. My original idea when i joined this list was |
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to help them do exactly what Hubbs suggests. If not on a REAL minimal CD, |
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at least we could compikle the CD from their catalyst script and just add |
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those 4 packages. |
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-- They didn't want to know. |
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Conclusion: If we want this done, i suspect we've going to have to do it. Not |
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releng. They've already had to cancel one release. If worst comes to worst, |
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tell all blind people to get the ISO from us, or use the livecd. |
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Best wishes, |
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Robyn |