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From: Douglas Russell <puggy@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] install CD bloat
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:20:08
Message-Id: 200308201418.17813.puggy@bobspants.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] install CD bloat by Michael Cummings
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4 What is perl a dependancy of? I'd look, but I don't want to do such a big
5 download. ;-)
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7 Puggy
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9 On Wednesday 20 August 2003 2:18 pm, Michael Cummings wrote:
10 > To hit one of the questions - perl is on there because it is a DEPEND of
11 > some of the other packages - it isn't there explicitly, its there because
12 > it is a DEPEND. (caps not personal, just pointing it out as the var)
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14 > and yes, despite my bias, i miss the days when i could point to the stage1
15 > iso and say to people "see? 15 megs. 15!!"
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17 > On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 08:39:23AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
18 > > I believe it *is* too much. In fact, our "basic" install CD should be
19 > > as basic as possible. The instructions should be as basic as possible.
20 > > Why are we using links rather than lynx? Why *is* perl on the install
21 > > CD? Why do we have vim versus a smaller vim clone?
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24 > > Chris Gianelloni
25 > > Developer, Gentoo Linux
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