Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 19:27:45 -0500 From: Paul Murphy <pnmurphy@cogeco.ca> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: steve@FreeBSD.ORG, lioux@FreeBSD.ORG, portmgr@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNOME/KDE issue with disc1 Message-ID: <20011209192745.3597e2dc.pnmurphy@cogeco.ca> In-Reply-To: <20011209151048.B92399@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20011207181333.A97777@dragon.nuxi.com> <20011209012306.A96687@dragon.nuxi.com> <20011209183512.1467.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> <20011209142050.M46667@bsd.havk.org> <20011209151048.B92399@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 15:10:48 -0800 "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 02:20:50PM -0600, Steve Price wrote: > > Before we go off willy-nilly making changes to this script we > > need to take some sort of poll (like I did several releases > > ago) to get a sense for what people feel *must* be on the first > > disc. > > Maybe we need an exclude list also. I know an underlaying issue is > keeping dependencies together since we don't handle dependencies across > CD's. GNOME and KDE are two very popular desktops and thus their basic > bits certainly need to be on disc1. But due to the dependency issue, > "lesser" related ports make the disc1 cut-off -- things like the 7.2MB > (*compressed*) GNOME user documentation (which can easily be found on a > website). > Personally I would think disc1 should take a "lets get up and running" attitude, and contain a "simpler" desktop. KDE and GNOME are way too bloated for a _basic_ install. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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