Yeah... along the way I have sort of figured that stuff ARE very complex (for example, PATH seems to be set and re-set several times during init and login and some environment variables seem very resistant to "sticking", which probably means that there is a later event that I have yet to identify)
Basically, the only reason I went with a *buntu minimal debootstrap was Anselm's idea of a "9buntu" that I came across in some mailing list archive on the web.... and there are probably tons of people out there that find it good just because it is a "*buntu" and are willing to try it :). As I mentioned in the earlier message The weird Bash dependency during boot annoys me though... as far as I could see everything was geared towards /bin/sh, which should = dash. I found another interesting debian-type in emdebian "grab", which should be busybox-based... might make things simpler if the whole GNU stuff has already been cleaned out once (and since I am on a sidux box, I think I am more inclined to try to mess with that family...). 2010/7/30 Troels Henriksen <at...@sigkill.dk> > Kris Maglione <maglion...@gmail.com> writes: > > > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 09:09:08AM +0200, Jens Staal wrote: > >>Hi all. > >> > >>While waiting for Sta.li to be finnished, I started playing around with a > >>custom ubuntu build that uses plan9port as default user interface on as > many > >>levels possible (inspired by some e-mails from Anselm that were lying > around > >>on the web). I am basically a total layman on this and I have sort of > leant > >>as I went along when I built this... so there are probably a few > completely > >>useless configuration setting changes made. > > > > I'm more than a little surprised that you'd start with such an > > overgrown, hulking Goliath of a system such as Ubuntu. I think it says > > enough that it has aptitude, apt-get, apt-cache, dpkg, dpkg-*, > > dselect, debhelper, and devscripts, just to make a start. Then you > > have such abominations as Sys-V init to contend with, and the maze of > > tangled configuration schemes. I would have started with a simpler > > system like Arch or GoboLinux, or even a BSD. Or if I were feeling a > > bit sadistic, Gentoo, Source Mage, or Slackware. Debian, though... I'm > > not that sadistic. > > Why not Linux from Scratch? Or even Glendix... > > (Slackware is probably the best realistic bet, due to the simplicity.) > > -- > \ Troels > /\ Henriksen > >