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On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 19:34, Tavis Ormandy wrote: |
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> And we're not talking about a few megabytes here, we're talking about a |
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> few hundred K's, with USE=minimal my vim binary is just 400k. |
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The difference is a bit more than that when you count all of the |
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supporting files for vim, but that really is not the point I think we're |
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trying to get at. The thing we are looking to solve is "Why do we need |
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an 80+ MB ISO to do installations from, when a smaller one can (and |
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should) do fine?" |
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> And if its that serious an issue, theres always upx :) |
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Which is an excellent suggestion. Has anyone looked into this, or would |
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it not really be of any value due to the usage of cloop? |
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> > I'm sure there are smaller, vi-compatible editors out there suitable for |
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> > putting onto the basic install CD. |
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> im sure there are, but vi != vim. |
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Honestly, I would love to see 3 CD "sets" from Gentoo. |
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1) An install CD, with *nothing* but the essentials to install. It |
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should have maximum driver support and minimal anything else. I would |
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think it should only have a stage1 tarball. |
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2) A "large" Live CD with the common tools and a nice GUI, this would |
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also be useful as a install CD, since it would have (at least) the |
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stage1 tarball. |
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3) The full GRP CD set with all of the pre-compiled packages and all |
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three stages. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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