On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 18:37, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > > On 24 June 2011, at 02:02, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I just happened to run into a situation where rsync would have been >> really handy to have on board while booting a minimal install iso. >> >> I was surprised to find rsync was not amongst the onboard tools. >> >> Isn't rsync a pretty basic tool to be missing from a bootable install >> disc? > > The goal of the minimal install CDs is to make them small. I don't know how > large they are now, but there used to be debate (regularly, IIRC, on > gentoo-dev) about including vi or vim. I think at that time the minimal CD > was down to about 22meg, and there was no way vim would be included due to > its "excessive" size (I think with deps it maybe ran to as much as 40meg). > > I haven't used Gentoo's install CDs in years. I think there may have even > been a period during which they weren't produced or supported. If I'm > installing a Gentoo system I now always use SystemRescueCD. I would imagine > that would have rsync on it. > > Stroller. >
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