Re: Gentoo installer vs current installation method, what about later?

Michael Crute <[email protected]> Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:12:30 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.installer
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 10/20/05, Chris Gianelloni <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 02:28 +0800, John Walsh wrote:
> > Ok, but will the CD still ahve everything it had before, or will you be
> removing stuff to make
> > room for X and all of that? If so, as I suspect, what will be taken out?
> Is there a place where
> > people can look at what will be removed and maybe vote on what needs to
> stay?
>
> Nothing is taken out. The Universal CD is just the Minimal CD, as far
> as functionality is concerned. This will be a more functional CD. As
> for voting, this isn't Survivor. You don't get to vote anyone off the
> island.
>

Aww... come on... I wanna vote somebody off the island.

Anyhow I think the minimal and the installer cd are the way to go. Perhaps
if you just also release the source files you use to build the iso (I don't
know what this would be, perhaps the catalyst file?) then people who
desperately want to put together a KDE livecd or something like that could
do it themselves.

-Mike

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