Re: Boot-Floppies: task packages
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On Wed 15 Sep 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>
> Paul> (suck and ncftp should probably also go into tesk-dialup;
>
> Why suck, if there is leafnode? A small ftp client is a good
OK, I was confusing leafnode with having the functionality of only
e.g. cnews (I use suck with cnews :-)
> idea. Although I would put lftp in there.
Whatever. I love ncftp :-) The ftp clients should probably
provide: ftp-client (as a virtual package), then ftp-client
would be enough.
> Paul> sox and mgetty are for the additional facilities offered by isdn
> Paul> i.e. vboxgetty (answering machine) and X.75 logins).
>
> OK for sox, but mgetty? Maybe for a so far non-existent task-dialin
> package, but I don't know why it should be part of task-dialup.
isdnutils suggests mgetty, so dselect will probably pull it in anyway.
Generally: the profiles that are in slink are way too general. I
prefer to see more smaller tasks that can be selected, which seems
what's happening now. Good work!
Paul Slootman
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