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Re: [Rule-list] Trimming the base package list
From: |
Wade Hampton |
Subject: |
Re: [Rule-list] Trimming the base package list |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Feb 2002 08:13:21 -0500 |
Marco Fioretti wrote:
> > Marco Fioretti wrote:
> >
> > > KEEP:
> > > apmd we will not use this ONLY on old PCs or laptops
> > > hotplug same as above
> >
> > Keep only if a laptop?
> Isn't hotplug for USB stuff? if so, should be always there, right?
> Same for apmd: if one has a desktop new enough to support it, and wants
> our stuff just in the name of elegance, why not?
OK. You're right.
> > REMOVE
> > > lilo why don't just use grub?
> >
> > MUST leave Lilo as an option. I have several 1G PIII boxes that
> > won't boot with grub but work great with Lilo (brand new 1U boxes).
>
> OK, then (I was thinking that GRUB would boot everywhere....). But this
> also makes the point about not using the project on old HW only, doesnt'
> it?
Yep. Those are embedded boxes and don't need a full RH disto, but got it
anyway...
> Perfect! Anything else we can do without?
Not sure. RH does load a lot of stuff and one wonders just how
much of it you really need or use.
Cheers,
--
Wade
>
>
> Ciao,
> Marco Fioretti
>
> >
> > > --
> > > Live for the present, dream of the the future, learn from the past.
> >
> > Live in the past, to heck with the future, forget the past as it is
> > irrelevant....
> ..but only after you have taken food and clean clothes from where they
> were hidden.....
>
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