hi, i just updated my etch cd, watching all these packages downloading i can never use, i was reminded again there could be a better way. here is a "lite desktop" that could be installed easily and might be more useful as well as saving the build pressure: apt-get install abiword acpi acpi-support acpid anacron apmd bc beep-media-player bittornado bittornado-gui bogofilter cdparanoia cdrecord cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client cupsys-driver-gimpprint dbus-1-utils dillo dc doc-debian dvd+rw-tools esound emelfm fetchmail mozilla-firefox mozilla-browser foomatic-db foomatic-db-engine foomatic-db-gimp-print foomatic-db-hpijs foomatic-filters foomatic-filters-ppds gaim gnome-sudo gnumeric gqview graveman gs-esp hal hotkey-setup hplip hplip-ppds irssi-text icewm icewm-themes icewm-common icewm-gnome-support icepref iceme ivman lftp libesd-alsa0 libgl1-mesa libglib2.0-data libglut3 libsasl2-modules libxp6 links2 lynx mc menu mgp mkisofs mousepad numlockx pnm2ppa powermanagement-interface powernowd procmail readahead rox-filer screen scrollkeeper slocate smbclient sylpheed synaptic ttf-arabeyes ttf-arphic-bkai00mp ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp ttf-arphic-gkai00mp ttf-baekmuk ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-freefont ttf-indic-fonts x-ttcidfont-conf ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-kochi-mincho ttf-malayalam-fonts xfonts-scalable xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi ttf-mgopen ubuntu-docs unzip wdm x-window-system-core xchat xkeyboard-config xorg-driver-synaptics xpdf xterm xzgv zip xine-ui i got this list off the Ubuntu lite wiki. now, there is ONLY i86 support there. why ? i don't know but no reason why not here some others like 68k ? __________________________ besides a reasonable list of packages (perhaps a few more than the above) as far as i can tell there needs some improvement in hardware support before anything like a release of etch: in the mac department i feel we need Most quadras supported and some MacII types. in unstable should be try and get the LC quadras and some '030 powerbooks (they were there at some point). also there is more hope for me in supporting the coldfire port, in addition to aranym, perhaps basilisk also. i was on motorola page yesterday i saw they have 2.6.16 linux there as a cd-iso. where are those developers ? if the pressure gets taken off for the busy work maybe there can be some progress if there is sufficient consideration given to upstream and "sidestream" neighbors, i believe there could be more hope here long term than in netbsd which although in better shape now is perhaps less well situated to bring in developer influences. so maybe better, IMHO if there is some thing of a branch here, not a fork just a branch. brian On 10/17/06, Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> wrote:
Hi all, So now that the release team has officially declared the m68k port not part of the release anymore, we need to find out what we want to do with our port. I guess it's pretty clear, at least on our end, that we do want to release something which will be as close to etch as possible; the question is how we'll do this. Since Michael Banck told me on IRC that he'd also have some interest in doing something similar for The Hurd, I've Cc'ed the Hurd mailinglist. An obvious method of doing this would be to set up a separate m68k.debian.net or something similar, and use that to distribute our binaries. However, before we go down that road, I'd prefer to recall something from the original Vancouver proposal, where it was suggested that it would be possible for non-released ports to do "snapshot" releases; additionally, Jeroen Van Wolffelaar told me in Breda that it should theoretically be possible to create a separate suite for a separate m68k etch-like distribution, which we then would be allowed to update. This mail is intended to find out if and how we'll go about setting this up. Ideally, it would initially be populated from whatever is testing currently where we'd be able to somehow manage what packages can go into this suite by ourselves, with or without ftpmaster intervention. An obvious alternative would be to set up a separate repository on m68k.debian.net or something similar; but I'd prefer to exhaust other possibilities before going down that route. -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-68k-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org