On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 09:22, Jochen Maes wrote: > Quoting Jeffrey Forman : > > > 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/ > > > 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 ---- GnuPG Public Key: Fingerprint: 4F9E 41F6 D072 5C1A 636C 2D46 B92C 4823 E281 41BB