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Dams (& Friends), |
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This is the kind of thing we want to work on. It would be nice to get |
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Gentoos blessing with the project. foser, this isnt a replacement of the |
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vanilla gentoo/gnome desktop, its just an overlaying bunch of ebuilds |
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that will make the existing system a little more polished for the |
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desktop users (and people doing rollouts in organisations). |
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I think we should leave the installer by itself at the moment and start |
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on the system itself. The guys at the installer kind of know what they |
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are doing and id rather them do it than bmg or other g-d-r members. |
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If you guys are willing to "sponsor" such a project, im all ears and im |
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sure BMG will be also, but our initial objective is to get something |
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nice working for a local univerisity. |
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Looking forward to talking soon |
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James. |
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On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 10:23 +0100, dams@×××.fr wrote: |
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> Markus Nigbur <pYrania@g.o> said: |
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> > On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:09:11 +0000 |
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> > James William Dumay <i386@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> > > These are some ideas we want to share with you guys at g-d-r. |
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> > > dams, since you felt this was more of a gdr thing, then I could get |
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> > > the thread moved to g-d-r mailing list... |
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> > > |
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> > > These are ideas that are flying around and are by no means static. |
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> > I don't think we should alter a _default_ system like this, but this |
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> > would indeed be interesting for livecds or demo cds like we our special |
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> > fosdem edition we made. |
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> I think we agree on the fact that we don't want to change the default system. |
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> The idea presented is "the same old thing" as would say foser :) |
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> Now I'm aware of that, and I suggest that we could discuss on the concept, |
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> rather on this particular implementation : maybe it would be good (tm) to have |
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> a real official project that try to implement an official "total customized" |
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> version of existing ebuilds. |
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> The idea is just that if they are already guys that want to develop it, and if |
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> there is a need, then why not discuss of it and try to handle it the best we |
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> can? |
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> My opinion is that there is a need for "heavily customized" gentoo. Like |
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> pyrania says in another mail, it can be usefull for demos/livecd. It can also |
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> be usefull for users that want a desktop that installs quickly. |
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> The gentoo installation is difficult, but not that long actually. If you could |
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> emerge a set of packages that ensure you a polished desktop, I'm sure we would |
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> gain a lot of users, especially in the redhat/mdk market. |
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> But if there is no real need or motivation, then there is nothing to discuss |
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> about :) |
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> PS : about the installation, what is the status of the new installation |
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> project? |
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> dams |
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