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On Sunday 30 November 2003 11:08 pm, Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote: |
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> We discussed on the IRC channel today. One of the things that came up |
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> was which major problem area we should try to tackle, that is, which |
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> setting are we focusing on? |
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All! :) |
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> ) Corporate desktop |
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> ) Home user/End-user |
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These are pretty similar in the end, I think. |
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> |
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> ) Embedded systems |
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The only way to currently do this is to make an image on a full system and |
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move it to the embedded system. For a true Embedded Gentoo, we need a way to |
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fetch ebuilds on demand and not have a local portage tree. |
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> We realise that we don't have enough manpower to solve everything, so |
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> we should probably start by picking a somewhat suitably sized problem and |
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> attacking it. |
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Corporate/Home are similar enough to attack at the same time. Embedded isn't |
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really for -desktop, but for -embedded. =p |
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> |
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> Examples of "suitably sized problems" may be |
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> ) Printing for home users |
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CUPS/KDE == easy printing already |
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> ) Deployment of Gentoo on 50+ identical desktops |
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InGen handles this easilly once complete. |
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> ) Proper plug'n'play support for USB devices |
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USB mouse works fine. USB networking does not, though. |
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> ) Nicer package upgrade and installation |
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> - I want a directory of packages that the user can peruse before |
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> installing. |
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A website with links to portage://packagename would work better, I think.... |
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> In that directory, I want for each package: |
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> - a screenshot |
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....especially if we include screenshots. |
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> - a long and thorough description, including license, deps |
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> - a link to the package's home page |
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> - a link to the package's currently open bugs, who's the |
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> maintainer |
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This would *require* that it be on a webpage =p |
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> - suggested accompanying packages |
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Overall, I think the Portage tree should become a cache before much of this is |
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implemented. Hopefully portage-ng will support that. |
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Luke-Jr |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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http://www.gentoo.org/ |
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