From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9225 invoked by uid 1002); 20 Aug 2003 13:10:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 16639 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2003 13:10:57 -0000 Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:18:01 -0400 From: Michael Cummings To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030820131801.GF28355@enki.datanode.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <20030818194238.GR1161@mail.lieber.org> <200308190133.21887.luke-jr@gentoo.org> <20030819064706.GB1138@gentoo.org> <200308200112.09533.luke-jr@gentoo.org> <1061383163.415.8.camel@vertigo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1061383163.415.8.camel@vertigo> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.20-gentoo-r1 i686 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] install CD bloat X-Archives-Salt: 0dbfec07-f6d5-4a81-b6f6-a2a45d72bd69 X-Archives-Hash: a46e8a3ebd2deb2a2f3cce0908426a4d To hit one of the questions - perl is on there because it is a DEPEND of some of the other packages - it isn't there explicitly, its there because it is a DEPEND. (caps not personal, just pointing it out as the var) and yes, despite my bias, i miss the days when i could point to the stage1 iso and say to people "see? 15 megs. 15!!" On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 08:39:23AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > I believe it *is* too much. In fact, our "basic" install CD should be > as basic as possible. The instructions should be as basic as possible. > Why are we using links rather than lynx? Why *is* perl on the install > CD? Why do we have vim versus a smaller vim clone? > > -- > Chris Gianelloni > Developer, Gentoo Linux -- -----o()o--------------------------------------------- | http://www.gentoo.org/ | #gentoo-dev on irc.freenode.net Gentoo Dev | #gentoo-perl on irc.freenode.net Perl Guy | | GnuPG Key ID: AB5CED4E9E7F4E2E -----o()o--------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list