On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:57:29AM -0400 or thereabouts, John Davis wrote:
> If we can do this without Samba, great, but if we can't, we need to
> seriously evaluate adding it to the LiveCD. Earlier, someone in the
> thread posed the question of its importance.  SMB shares compose the
> majority of file shares out there, so we should be able to support it
> fully ;)

We should be making decisions based on user demand, not our perception of
user demand.  I searched for "samba livecd" on the forums and only found
one thread (out of over 1.25 million posts) where it was even discussed.[1]
That thread is almost 2 years old.  Searching the gentoo-user archives, I
didn't find a single thread where users were asking for samba support on
the livecd.  

Conversely, I have spoken to *several* people at the various LWEs who still
use the Gentoo Linux 1.2 installation CD.  Why?  Because it's ~15MB and
isn't loaded with bloat.  (their words, not mine)

I don't think the user demand is out there to support further increasing
the size of the LiveCD, especially with something as large as samba.

--kurt

[1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=24991