Wesley Shields wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 06:28:44PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote: >> Hey, these great comments bring up a different solution, which may be >> the way to go. >> >> It is simple: have a few of the common apps that are net-centric (like >> firefox) be simply calls to pkg_add -r in the installer. No ports >> databases, no packages on the discs. A few packages may be useful >> (like perl) to someone without net access, but many need the net to be >> useful. > > No thanks. This means you have to have a working connection to install > firefox via this method. Since not everyone will have that it is still > necessary to bundle the firefox package on the media, bringing us right > back to the very issue you are trying to solve.
Could this not also be resolved another way? Most desktops these days have DVD drives. If someone wants a bootable desktop-targeted release with X, Firefox and such, why not make that a DVD instead of trying to shoehorn all of this into a CD? Most of the older machines with aging CD-ROM drives or without a DVD drive may not have the horsepower to run a live CD with X anyhow. My servers only have CD-ROM drives, but then again they wouldn't be using a desktop-oriented live CD with X either. :-) Sure, the download would be (much?) larger, but you would have a lot more room to work with. The CD installs are great for me, and have worked well for years. Personally, I install, update to -STABLE from a local cvsup mirror, then use an updated ports tree or install packages remotely. The packages on CD are out of date practically from the moment they are placed there, so I rarely use them. The only package I regularly used was cvsup-without-gui, which has been replaced by csup in the base system. Also, is not Ubuntu a "downstream" release of Debian, much like FreeSBIE and PC-BSD are "downstream" of FreeBSD? If you want to compare apples to apples, you might investigate those choices a little closer. Jim _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
