On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 04:53:22 +0900 Chris White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
|       I was working on a putting Gentoo on a system and selling them
|       out as a
| business plan for a partner.  While doing this.. I thought to myself
| "What would go best on a consumer level Gentoo system".  It came to my
| mind that having a profile might be a good idea.  That way if someone
| wants to sell Gentoo systems, we can point them to the correct profile
| and it will emerge all the packages and all that's left is to do some
| basic configuration (xorg and what not).  I don't know how well
| supported an idea would be.. and I'll just do it locally if it isn't..
| but I'm willing to take suggestions as to what would be good for a
| consumer level machine.  Please note that by that I mean something
| without services and what  not (apache and such), but something more
| along the lines of "check email, play videos and music, and surf the
| internet".  I ended up with a system that had
| mplayer/xmms/gimp/openoffice/firefox on there as my base setup.  So
| let me know what everyone thinks.

GLEP 21 may be of interest to you. Probably easier than profiles...

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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools)
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