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From: Tobias Sager <moixa@×××.ch>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] install CD bloat
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:05:16
Message-Id: 20030820160508.00002737.moixa@gmx.ch
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] install CD bloat by Chris Gianelloni
1 On 20.08.03 08:39 Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2
3 > On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 21:10, Luke-Jr wrote:
4 > > Graphical browsers are much more preferable to things like lynx
5 > > (which doesn't even handle tables properly, IIRC). Is 4.4 MB really
6 > > too much for a nice graphical browser? The docs could probably even
7 > > get away with saying to use the Setup->Network options menu item if
8 > > a proxy is needed.
9 >
10 > I believe it *is* too much. In fact, our "basic" install CD should be
11 > as basic as possible. The instructions should be as basic as
12 > possible. Why are we using links rather than lynx? Why *is* perl on
13 > the install CD? Why do we have vim versus a smaller vim clone?
14
15 What about:
16 http://freshmeat.net/projects/virus/
17
18 Just had a look at it. It is really small (about 35k) and seems to be
19 working like vim (anyway, the standard keys did).
20
21 I really like VIM, but prefer having a small Gentoo Installation CD!
22
23 Regards
24 Tobias
25
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Re: [gentoo-dev] install CD bloat Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o>