Andrew Gaffney wrote:
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
aside from that I don't have any "feature requests". For the benefit
of folks with slower hardware, you might want to think about
installing the binaries of Open Office, Firefox, Thunderbird and
Evolution on a networkless install from the CD.
All of these packages (except maybe Evolution) are available on the
LiveCD for installation as part of a networkless install with the
installer. The LiveDVD should have Evolution as well. The installer
won't install anything the user doesn't ask for. If you want it, check
the box on the Extra Packages screen.
Yes, I know they're on the LiveCD. And if you install them networkless,
they install the regular "ebuild", not the "-bin" version. So the next
update makes you recompile. On slower machines, OpenOffice, for example,
takes a long time to recompile. But if you put "openoffice-bin" on the
LiveCD, that wouldn't happen.
Firefox, Evolution, Thunderbird and OpenOffice are packages just about
everybody loads, they're packages of significant size taking a fair
amount of time to recompile on a "typical 1 GHz" machine, and they have
frequent updates. In fact, I only started building OpenOffice from
source when I got my dual core Athlon64 X2 5200+ with 4 GB of RAM!
Maybe the dividing line should be CD vs. DVD. Put the "-bin" ones on the
LiveCD but put the compiled versions on the LiveDVD, or both, since
there's probably room for both on the DVD.
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