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From: Luke-Jr <luke-jr@g.o>
To: Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o>, gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] install CD bloat
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 01:12:12
Message-Id: 200308200112.09533.luke-jr@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] install CD bloat by Sven Vermeulen
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4 Graphical browsers are much more preferable to things like lynx (which doesn't
5 even handle tables properly, IIRC). Is 4.4 MB really too much for a nice
6 graphical browser? The docs could probably even get away with saying to use
7 the Setup->Network options menu item if a proxy is needed.
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9 On Tuesday 19 August 2003 06:47 am, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
10 > On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 01:33:03AM +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:
11 > > I'm hoping I can get bittorrent and ntp added too and perhaps svgalib
12 > > support for links. This would total 8.3 MB on a uncompressed system.
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14 > Are we really going to keep links (even substituting lynx)? I've replied to
15 > the bugreport that it would be better for documentation-purposes to keep
16 > lynx, since links needs an extra section regarding proxy-usage, and I have
17 > received instructions not to increase the installation guide.
18 >
19 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26282
20 >
21 > Wkr,
22 > Sven Vermeulen
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] install CD bloat Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] install CD bloat Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] install CD bloat Kurt Lieber <klieber@g.o>