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From: Mikhail Zotov on 26 Nov 2009 02:23 On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:56:09 +0100 Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist(a)deadspam.com> wrote: > Mike Jones <Not(a)Arizona.Bay> wrote: > > Reqest to Slackware installation media developers: > > > > Can we (extra pretty) PLEASE have Nano on the install disks? > > In case you wont get your request fulfilled and still feel the need for > these or other applications it might be useful to know that it is rather > easy to customize the installation disk. > > I have written a Makefile to build my own installation disks with custom > contents: Henrik, is this Makefile available somewhere in the Net? I think, many people would be interested in trying/using it. -- Mikhail
From: Res on 26 Nov 2009 02:23 On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Mike Jones wrote: >>> Reqest to Slackware installation media developers: >> >> That would be volkerdi(a)slackware.com > > > If one wanted to clog up Pat's email with such trivialities. Simple > posting to this NG should act as a low priority message-in-a-bottle. > Nope, Pat does not read this NG, its full of wankers so why would he :) Pat alone has the only say of what goes into Slackware. He's kind of open to dicscussion, I had talked to him about a few programs I think should be in it by default (such as postfix, dovecot, and I threw in pureftpd as well for measure), he suggested those in slackbuilds, I then suggested that they are very mainstream programs and it would be beneficial to have them in the offical release, like most every other distro does (at least with postfix and dovecot), I guess we'll know in time if he deicdes to, but since that was over a month ago and there's no appearance in -current I dare say he isn't going to in the near future. >>> Midnight Commander would be nice too, and there is plenty of room on huh ? 'mc' is, and has been, in Slackware for a very *long* time. -- Res "What does Windows have that Linux doesn't?" - One hell of a lot of bugs!
From: Clemens Ladisch on 26 Nov 2009 04:13 Michael Black wrote: > On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Mike Jones wrote: > > Can we (extra pretty) PLEASE have Nano on the install disks? > > Am I missing the question? Both Nano and MC are in Slackware 13 > [...] > The only other way I can interpret your question is that you think it > should be available when booting the DVD during the install phase. The Slackware installer uses busybox, so vi (and ed) is all that's available then. It runs from a RAM disk, so it's very unlikely that a separate editor will be added, even one as small as nano. Best regards, Clemens
From: Eef Hartman on 26 Nov 2009 07:35 Mike Jones <Not(a)arizona.bay> wrote: > If you're going to have obscure stuff like joe and jove in the default > install, the Nano should be in there too, to be fair about it. But nano (and mc) _are_ in the (13.0 probably "and before") distribution (the tagfile for the "ap" set gives: jed:OPT joe:OPT jove:OPT mc:OPT nano:REC in which "OPT" means optional, the question in an interactive install will have as default NO, while REC is recommended, the question has as default YES). The other two are ADD (the package will be added without a question) and SKP (no question, no install skipped). You can create your own tagfiles with the "maketag" script in each fileset. -- ******************************************************************* ** Eef Hartman, Delft University of Technology, dept. SSC/ICT ** ** e-mail: E.J.M.Hartman(a)tudelft.nl - phone: +31-15-278 82525 ** *******************************************************************
From: Mike Jones on 26 Nov 2009 07:37
Responding to Keith Keller: > On 2009-11-26, Michael Black <et472(a)ncf.ca> wrote: >> On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Mike Jones wrote: >> >>> Reqest to Slackware installation media developers: >>> >>> Can we (extra pretty) PLEASE have Nano on the install disks? >> >> Am I missing the question? Both Nano and MC are in Slackware 13 (and >> they are in 12.0 too). > [snip] >> The only other way I can interpret your question is that you think it >> should be available when booting the DVD during the install phase. > > Based on the rest of the thread that is what I believe the OP wants. > > --keith Yup. -- *=( http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/ *=( For all your UK news needs. |