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Hi all - |
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Thanks for the discussion, I will try to hit on all of the major points |
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It seems that the general consensus is to keep i686 and x86 if we do in |
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fact decide to drop some other subarches. Am I right in saying that? |
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Although I see where you all are coming from with regard to the minimal |
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GRP set, I would rather that we just stick to a monolithic GRP set for a |
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couple of reasons. One (big) reason is that GRP not only accomodates |
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rapid installs through reducing application install time, but it also |
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enables networkless machines to install a full gambit of common apps. A |
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user could have a dual processor P4 HT with 3 GB of ram, which would |
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compile mozilla in about 20 mins, but if they don't have a net |
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connection at install time, they are SOL. Also, do we really need to be |
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maintaining two sets of GRP? I would rather focus our efforts on LiveCDs |
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and other future projects, such as X LiveCDs, GameCDs, etc. |
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When I first made my decision about GameCDs, I was rather naive ;) There |
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really is no reason that they should provide install functionality |
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outside of basic hardware detection. Chris and Livewire are right - it |
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is a waste of space otherwise. At some point, I would like to make |
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GameCDs a full blown releng sub-project, provided that we have the |
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manpower to run with it. First priority though is to stabilize our |
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release media. |
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Cheers, |
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//zhen |
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