Re: [gentoo-dev] install CD bloat

[Jon Portnoy <avenj@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:54:20AM +0100, Douglas Russell wrote:
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> I think there are two camps trying to put forward points here and I'm 
> reasonably convinced that the camp arguing strongly for a vim are the camp 
> which also plan to us their livecds for rescue and popping in all over the 
> place to get a useful basic linux system. I can quite understand that in this 
> case having a powerful editor would be extremely useful. However, considering 
> purely the case of the installation, and download size I'm sure the 
> experienced users who are more likely to be using vi would be able to manage 
> editing a single file with nano.
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> I must say I really liked the idea from earlier on which would allow you to 
> easily add things to your livecd easily to make your own custom livecd, then 
> you can make it as huge as you want, with vim, emacs or whatever, creating 
> your perfect livecd.
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I'm sorry, I wasn't clear enough. I'm specifically referring to inside 
the stage - i.e., what's available when you chroot. That's where you'll 
be doing things like editing make.conf.

I have no strong feelings about what goes on the LiveCD.

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Jon Portnoy
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