On 10 Jun 2002 14:44:57 -0300
Rufiao Valhacouto <rufiao@gmx.net> wrote:

  |Following the announce of Gentoo 1.2 cds, I've just created a [meta]
  |stage4 tarball to evaluate how big it would be to accommodate xfree,
  |fluxbox, mozilla, xchat, links, ircssi, nvi, gpm and gentoolkit to help
  |people have a graphic environment and/or access to www and irc in the
  |setup process (as stated by Faust Tanasescu in a later post). The
  |resulting stage4 tarball was about 100M larger than the stage3 one. A
CD
  |with stage1 (ix86), stage2 (ix86, i586, i686), stage3 (i586, i686) and
  |stage4 (i586, i686) would take less than 800M (in the case it can't fit
  |on a CD, one of the stage4 versions could be stripped).
  |
  |I've installed the packages right over a chroot with
  |stage3-i[56]86-1.3a.tbz2, export USE="-gnome -java" (to avoid mozilla
  |install a JVM and xchat install gnome dependencies) and emerge xfree
  |fluxbox mozilla xchat links ircssi nvi gpm gentoolkit
  |
  |Do you think it's a good thing to provide such stage4 tarball
  |officially?

i think that the xserver don't is useful in th einstalation, and can
remove mozilla for links, and remove al x-based apps, Maybe the svglib an
gpm, and mc, it can be sufficent


José Alberto Suárez López
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