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Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: |
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> Le samedi 04 août 2007 à 09:08 +0300, Samuli Suominen a écrit : |
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>> On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:28:26 -0700 |
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>> Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>> We disabled it to try to get the size of the x86/amd64 LiveCDs down. |
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>>> Thanks. I knew there had to be some reason for it, but couldn't |
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>>> remember what it was off the top of my head. Luckily, this won't be |
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>>> much of an issue with the next release, since we're switching to Xfce |
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>>> rather than GNOME to bring the size down even further and to try to |
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>>> produce a more useful (as in more tools) LiveCD. Of course, the |
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>>> LiveDVD will have everything on it, as it does now. |
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>> Glad to hear that. Then maybe we could add some stages to livecd? |
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>> Replace evolution with something usable like claws-mail to do so. |
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> why would you need a mailer at all on a livecd ? Is the livecd intended |
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> to provide a full desktop experience whichever desktop is chosen or is |
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> it just provided as a way to have something to do while you are |
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> installing and/or tools to fix your install ? |
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> if it's not intended to be a full desktop experience (garnome does it |
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> very well for gnome afaik) then you could install only gnome-light for a |
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> start. |
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The LiveCD is intended to replace the separate GRP and universal CDs when |
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combined with the installer. The installer uses the packages installed on the CD |
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to do the new install. I'm not sure how many times this has been brought up on |
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this list. You people need to pay attention ;) |
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Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator |
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