Re: Questions regarding the base system
On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
liw>Christoph Lameter:
liw>> I looked at the base system and I think we should remove adduser from it.
liw>> I dont think it is essential to be able to add users in a minimal system.
liw>> It is needed right now just to create one initial user.
liw>> Perhaps we could live without it?
liw>
liw>If adduser is removed from base, then the same functionality needs to
liw>be added in some other way. Given that we're going to incorporate
liw>shadow some day soon, is it a good idea to duplicate functionality?
You might have misunderstood me. I want adduser removed from the base
system not from debian altogether.
liw>> Why is the MBR package in the base system?
liw>
liw>I would guess that it is there so that it can be installed in the
liw>hard disks boot sector. Not every hard disk has a boot program already
liw>installed.
Lilo comes with everything needed if I am not mistaken.
liw>> Would it be possible to generate a standard.tar.gz like a base.tar.gz
liw>> containing all standard packages?
liw>
liw>That would be big. Not everyone wants everything "standard".
But that is a good place for people to start with and it should be easy to
just decompress that huge file into a partition. And also fast.
liw>Rewriting dselect would be a better idea for what I think you
liw>want to get done here.
Will you do it?
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