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On 05/24/2009 05:32 AM, Roy Bamford wrote: |
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> On 2009.05.24 02:44, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> Random reply to thread |
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>> William Hubbs |
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>> gentoo accessibility team lead |
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>> williamh@g.o |
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> Put all the downloads for a minimal gentoo install into dial up |
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> context. You need the minimal CD, the stage 3, the portage snapshot, a |
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> bootloader and a kernel. |
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> An extra 20Mb in that total size is trivial. |
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> Having done a few remote installs for blind users dropping into |
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> #gentoo, I understand the frustration that lack of accessibility |
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> causes. |
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> Please add accessibility to Gentoo install media and help our users to |
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> help themselves. |
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Since my only real argument against it (size) has been effectively shot down, if |
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someone does all the testing/patching and provides a nice, neat little package |
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for releng (me, basically) to integrate, we'll do it. I just don't have the |
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time/inclination to do it myself. |
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Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Genkernel + Release Engineering Lead |
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