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From: Joachim Blaabjerg <styx@SuxOS.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] IRC on install CD
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:04:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200206101404.18156.styx@SuxOS.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0206101242410.15274-100000@oaktree.cisco.com>

On Monday 10 June 2002 12:45, Wout Mertens wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> Here's an interesting idea I heard on IRC (from kraylus): provide a
> console-based IRC client on the install CD so you can immediately chat on
> #gentoo for install problems. (with a little entry in install.txt that
> explains how to use it)

Sounds like a good idea to me... We'd probably have to create a new user on 
the install CD, though. We don't want to encourage our users to IRC as root, 
now do we? Perhaps an `alias irssi='su - gentoo-install -c irssi'` could be 
an idea.

> Only, I don't know anything about console-based IRC apps, so I wouldn't
> know which one is best. pmjorange suggested irssi.

Yeah, I agree that irssi is the best choice.

Best Regards,

-- 
Joachim Blaabjerg
styx@SuxOS.org
www.SuxOS.org



  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-06-10 12:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-10 10:45 [gentoo-dev] IRC on install CD Wout Mertens
2002-06-10 11:37 ` Einar Karttunen
2002-06-10 12:04 ` Joachim Blaabjerg [this message]
2002-06-10 16:34 ` Rufiao Valhacouto
2002-06-10 17:12 ` Jose Alberto Suarez Lopez
2002-06-13 19:57   ` Bjarke Sørensen

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