grip being removed [Re: rawhide report: 20050120 changes]

Aaron Bennett aaron.bennett at olin.edu
Fri Jan 28 18:34:35 UTC 2005


Sean Middleditch wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 17:15 +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote:
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>>PPC? Bloat! :-)
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>Hmm, good point.  You know, now that I think on it, the kernel itself is
>pretty big.  Got a lot of them drivers in it.  Nobody needs all of 'em.
>I say we compile all drivers as modules and put them all in Extras, too.
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How about we just distribute a boot disk, people can use that to 
partition their system, download the minimum files they need, and then 
rebuild everything from .src.rpms.  We can call it "Fedortoo" :-)

-- 
Aaron Bennett
UNIX Administrator
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering





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