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... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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