Re: [gentoo-releng] samba on the livecds

[John Davis <zhen@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 09:22, Jochen Maes wrote:
> Quoting Jeffrey Forman <jforman@gentoo.org>:
> 
> > Maybe someone can clarify this for me..the LiveCD, is:
> > 
> > (1) the INSTALL cd we're all familiar with or
> > (2) a Knoppix-like cd that boots into Gnome/KDE/<insert wm>
> > 
> The first
> 
> 
> > If (1), honestly...does someone NEED samba upon the install? if they
> > have broadband, they can download the files anyways.
> 
> don't agree, nobody has broadband, and some of them have caps (amount of data
> transferred. last release i got capped after 2 days (upping grp cd's to mirrors)
> 
> And i definitely put some files on my other systems... and access through SMB or
> NFS.

And don't forget backups too - many people use our LiveCDs as rescue
CDs.

Regardless, a solution needs to be found that satisfies our space
requirements (25 MB is way too big) and offers us the functionality that
we need. Chris (and others) mentioned a stripped down smbclient package.
Can we add a livecd USEflag to the samba ebuild and go from there?

Cheers,
-- 
John Davis
Gentoo Linux Developer
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~zhen>

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